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Engineering Review : International journal for publishing of original researches from the aspect of structural analysis, materials and new technologies in the field of mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, fundamental engineering sciences, computer sciences, electrical engin, Vol. 28 No. 2, 2008.

Original scientific paper

TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS: A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR CROATIAN LANGUAGE

Miran POBAR ; Department for Informatics, University of Rijeci, Rijeka, Croatia
Sanda MARTINČIĆ-IPŠIĆ ; Department for Informatics, University of Rijeci, Rijeka, Croatia
Ivo IPŠIĆ ; Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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Abstract

This paper presents the development of a Croatian text-to-speech system capable of synthesizing speech from arbitrary text. Input text in normalized form is first transcribed into a phonetic string (grapheme-to-phoneme conversion) and then processed by a TD-PSOLA based synthesizer. A procedure for automatic selection of diphones from a spoken corpus is proposed. A Croatian language diphone database was built for the system. Subjective quality evaluations of the resulting speech were performed, as well as tests for intelligibility.

Keywords

diphone selection; Croatian diphone database; diphone concatenation; text-to-speech systems; speech quality evaluation

Hrčak ID:

30616

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/30616

Publication date:

19.12.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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