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| Title | TexAFon 2.0: a Text Processing Tool for the Generation of Expressive Speech in TTS Applications |
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| Authors | Juan-María Garrido, Yesika Laplaza, Benjamin Kolz and Miquel Cornudella |
| Abstract | This paper presents TexAfon 2.0, an improved version of the text processing tool TexAFon, specially oriented to the generation of synthetic speech with expressive content. TexAFon is a text processing module in Catalan and Spanish for TTS systems, which performs all the typical tasks needed for the generation of synthetic speech from text: sentence detection, pre-processing, phonetic transcription, syllabication, prosodic segmentation and stress prediction. These improvements include a new normalisation module for the standardisation on chat text in Spanish, a module for the detection of the expressed emotions in the input text, and a module for the automatic detection of the intended speech acts, which are briefly described in the paper. The results of the evaluations carried out for each module are also presented. |
| Topics | Emotion Recognition/Generation, Speech Synthesis |
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TexAFon 2.0: a Text Processing Tool for the Generation of Expressive Speech in TTS Applications |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{GARRIDO14.377, author = {Juan-María Garrido and Yesika Laplaza and Benjamin Kolz and Miquel Cornudella}, title = {TexAFon 2.0: a Text Processing Tool for the Generation of Expressive Speech in TTS Applications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |