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Matoušek J. and Tihelka D. and Romportl J. and Psutka J. : Slovak Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis: Creating a New Slovak Voice within a Czech TTS System ARTIC . IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, vol. 39, p. 147-154, 2012.

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IAENG Internat. J. Computer Science 2012, 39(2)

Abstract

ARTIC (Artificial Talker in Czech) is a corpus-based text-to-speech (TTS) system that enables to synthesise 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) with the quality of resulting speech limited by the fixed inventory, and multiple unit instance system with the quality profitting 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. Text processing module, including automatic phonetic transcription and symbolic prosodic description of an arbitrary Slovak text, will be detailed. Finally, speech production module based on the unit selection algorithm will be mentioned as well.

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Title: Slovak Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis: Creating a New Slovak Voice within a Czech TTS System ARTIC
Author: Matoušek J. ; Tihelka D. ; Romportl J. ; Psutka J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 26 May 2012
Year: 2012
Type of publication: Papers in journals
Title of journal or book: IAENG International Journal of Computer Science
Číslo vydání: 39
Page: 147 - 154
ISSN: 1819-656X
/ 2012-05-30 22:53:07 /

Keywords

text-to-speech, corpus-based speech synthesis, unit selection, Slovak language

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@ARTICLE{MatousekJ_2012_SlovakUnit-Selection,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek J. and Tihelka D. and Romportl J. and Psutka J.},
 title = {Slovak Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis: Creating a New Slovak Voice within a Czech TTS System ARTIC },
 year = {2012},
 journal = {IAENG International Journal of Computer Science},
 volume = {39},
 pages = {147-154},
 ISSN = {1819-656X},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2012_SlovakUnit-Selection},
}