A portability evaluation of Brazilian Portuguese voices produced with MARY TTS

Author

Souza, Danilo ; Saturnino, Levi ; Maciel, Alexandre M. A.

Author_Institution

Sci. & Technol. Fac. of Caruaru, Univ. of Pernambuco, Caruaru, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

12-15 May 2014

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

98

Abstract

The voice user interface area has received great attention from academics and one reason of this is convergence of devices and the massive production of multimedia content. Additionally, the increasing use of smart phones has enabled the use of synthesis at times when the user may not have their eyes fixed on the display. This work realized portability evaluation of MARY TTS in operating system for mobile devices Android, for this two Brazilian Portuguese voices were built and a portability evaluation was realized. The obtained results are positives and promise to be a great useful for real application.

Keywords

Android (operating system); graphical user interfaces; smart phones; speech synthesis; speech-based user interfaces; Android mobile devices; Brazilian-Portuguese voices; GUI; MARY TTS; device convergence; massive multimedia content production; operating system; portability evaluation; smart phones; voice user interface area; Electronic publishing; Hidden Markov models; High-temperature superconductors; Servers; Smart phones; Training; XML; Android; FIVE; MARY TTS; Text-To-Speech;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubrovnik

ISSN

2157-8672

Type

conf

Filename

6837639