Slovak unit-selection speech synthesis: creating a new slovak voice within a czech TTS system ARTIC

dc.contributor.authorMatoušek, Jindřich
dc.contributor.authorTihelka, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorRomportl, Jan
dc.contributor.authorPsutka, Josef
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-15T11:55:56Z
dc.date.available2015-12-15T11:55:56Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstract-translatedARTIC (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.en
dc.format8 s.cs
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.citationMATOUŠEK, Jindřich; TIHELKA, Daniel; ROMPORTL, Jan; PSUTKA, Josef. Slovak unit-selection speech synthesis: creating a new slovak voice within a czech TTS system ARTIC. In: IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, 2012, 39, p. 147-154. ISSN 1819-656X.en
dc.identifier.issn1819-656X
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.kky.zcu.cz/cs/publications/MatousekJ_2012_SlovakUnit-Selection
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/17011
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInternational Association of Engineersen
dc.rights© Jindřich MatouŠek - Daniel Tihelka - Jan Romportl - Josef Psutkacs
dc.rights.accessopenAccessen
dc.subjectsyntéza řečics
dc.subjectkorpus řečics
dc.subjectvýběr jednotkycs
dc.subjectslovenštinacs
dc.subject.translatedspeech synthesisen
dc.subject.translatedspeech corpusen
dc.subject.translatedunit selectionen
dc.subject.translatedslovak languageen
dc.titleSlovak unit-selection speech synthesis: creating a new slovak voice within a czech TTS system ARTICen
dc.title.alternativeSyntéza slovenské řeči metodou výběru jednotek: Tvorba nového slovenského hlasu v českém systému TTS ARTICcs
dc.typečlánekcs
dc.typearticleen
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen

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