Title :
A comparison between allophone, syllable, and diphone based TTS systems for Kurdish language
Author :
Barkhoda, Wafa ; ZahirAzami, Bahram ; Bahrampour, Anvar ; Shahryari, Om-Kolsoom
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & IT, Univ. of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
Abstract :
Nowadays, concatenative method is used in most modern TTS systems to produce artificial speech. The most important challenge in this method is choosing an appropriate unit for creating a database. This unit must warranty smoothness and high quality speech, and also, creating database for it must take reasonable resources and should be inexpensive. Syllable, phoneme, allophone, and, diphone are usually used as the units in such systems. In this paper, we implemented three synthesis systems for Kurdish language, respectively based on syllable, allophone, and diphone. We compare the quality of the three systems, using subjective tests.
Keywords :
speech synthesis; text analysis; Kurdish language; allophone TTS systems; artificial speech; concatenative method; diphone TTS systems; high quality speech; phoneme; syllable TTS systems; text-to-speech; Application software; Computer interfaces; Databases; Information technology; Natural languages; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; System testing; Telephony; Warranties; Allophone; Concatenative Method; Diphone; Kurdish TTS System; Speech Synthesis; Syllable;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 2009 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ajman
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5949-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISSPIT.2009.5407540
