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Matoušek, J. and Tihelka, D. and Grůber, M. : On Building a New Slovak Voice for the Czech Unit-Selection TTS System ARTIC . Speech Processing, vol. 2010, p. 140-146, Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR, Prague, 2010.

Abstract

ARTIC (Artificial Talker in Czech) is a corpus-based text-to-speech (TTS) system that enables to synthesize an arbitrary text, mainly for the Czech language. Basically, two versions of ARTIC are available ? a single unit instance system (also known as fixed-inventory synthesis, e.g. diphone-based synthesis) with the quality of resulting speech limited by the fixed inventory, and multiple unit instance system with the quality profiting from employing a unit selection algorithm to select the longest suitable sequence of phonetic units from many units available. In this paper, a process of building a new Slovak voice for the unit selection version of ARTIC is presented. All steps in the design, from the preparation of a suitable speech corpus to the creation of an acoustic unit inventory of the new Slovak voice and its use in the ARTIC system will be described. Special focus will be given to the description of both phonetic features of Slovak and issues in real-time text processing.

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Title: On Building a New Slovak Voice for the Czech Unit-Selection TTS System ARTIC
Author: Matoušek, J. ; Tihelka, D. ; Grůber, M.
Language: English
Year: 2010
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Title of journal or book: Speech Processing
Číslo vydání: 2010
Page: 140 - 146
ISBN: 978-80-86269-21-4
Publisher: Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR
Address: Prague
Date: 22 Sep 2010
2011-03-15 16:21:56 / 2011-04-20 16:59:50 / 1

Keywords

TTS, speech synthesis, unit selection, ARTIC, Slovak

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2010_OnBuildingaNew,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Tihelka, D. and Gr\r{u}ber, M.},
 title = {On Building a New Slovak Voice for the Czech Unit-Selection TTS System ARTIC},
 year = {2010},
 publisher = {Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR},
 journal = {Speech Processing},
 address = {Prague},
 volume = {2010},
 pages = {140-146},
 ISBN = {978-80-86269-21-4},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2010_OnBuildingaNew},
}