Summary of the paper
| Title | Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis |
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| Authors | Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka and Jan Romportl |
| Abstract | The paper deals with the process of designing a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for unit selection speech synthesis. The attention is given mainly to the recording and verification stage of the process. In order to ensure as high quality and consistency of the recordings as possible, a special recording environment consisting of a recording session management and “pluggable” chain of checking modules was designed and utilised. Other stages, namely text collection (including) both phonetically and prosodically balanced sentence selection and a careful annotation on both orthographic and phonetic level are also mentioned. |
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| Topics | Speech synthesis, Text-to-speech systems, Speech resource/database, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
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Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{MATOUEK08.329, author = {Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka and Jan Romportl}, title = {Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |