Title :
A concatenative Turkish text-to-speech system and evaluation process
Author :
Orhan, Zeynep ; Görmez, Zeliha
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. Dept., Fatih Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
In this study, a concatenative text-to-speech system for Turkish is built. The system uses simple techniques and the concatenation units are obtained from the atomic units. This approach is very well suited for Turkish language structure and it is flexible enough to allow the synthesis of all types texts. The Turkish TTS system is tested considering the naturalness and intelligibility criterion. It is evaluated by using MOS, DRT and CT. Naturalness and intelligibility of the Turkish TTS system is tested by MOS and CT-DRT, respectively. Although the system uses simple techniques, it provides promising results for Turkish TTS, since the selected concatenative method is very well suited for Turkish language structure.
Keywords :
speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; Turkish TTS system; Turkish language structure; atomic units; concatenation units; concatenative Turkish text-to-speech system; evaluation process; intelligibility; naturalness; Databases; Digital signal processing; Humans; Natural languages; Runtime; Signal synthesis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; System testing; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2009. ELECO 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bursa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5106-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-9944-89-818-8
