Title :
A prosodic Turkish text-to-speech synthesizer
Author :
Vural, Esra ; Oflazer, Kemal
Author_Institution :
Sabanci Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
We describe an implementation of a Turkish text-to-speech system using word stress as one of the sources for prosody, with an increased number of phonemes to cover the pronunciation variations in Turkish. The implementation is based on the Festival System (Black, A. and Lenzo, K., "Building Voices in the Festival Speech Synthesis System", Carnegie Mellon University).
Keywords :
natural languages; speech synthesis; Festival System; Turkish text-to-speech synthesizer; phonemes; prosodic text-to-speech synthesizer; prosody; word stress; Linear predictive coding; Snow; Speech synthesis; Stress; Synthesizers;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE 12th
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8318-4
DOI :
10.1109/SIU.2004.1338562
