Title :
Voice synthesis application based on syllable concatenation
Author :
Buza, O. ; Toderean, G.I. ; Domokos, J. ; Bodo, A. Zs
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. of Cluj, Cluj-Napoca
Abstract :
This article presents a voice synthesis application based on syllable concatenation. The system is dedicated for Romanian language, so it was need to work on special rules to decompose Romanian text into syllables. Also for preserving initial prosody of text, accentuation of syllables inside word had to be determined. Then we have recorded a vocal database with the most frequent syllables of Romanian language. A unit matching algorithm matches linguistic units from the input text and acoustic units from database. Acoustic units are then concatenated and converted into sound by mean of a synthesizer.
Keywords :
acoustic signal processing; linguistics; natural language processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; Romanian language; Romanian text decomposition; acoustic units; linguistic units; syllable concatenation; syllables accentuation; unit matching algorithm; vocal database; voice synthesis; Acoustic signal detection; Acoustic waves; Databases; Information analysis; Natural languages; Particle separators; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Stress; Text analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, 2008. AQTR 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cluj-Napoca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2576-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2577-8
DOI :
10.1109/AQTR.2008.4588967
