Abstract
This paper describes a new generic text-to-speech synthesis system, developed in the scope of the Tecnovoz Project. Although it was primarily targeted at speech synthesis in European Portuguese, its modular architecture and flexible components allows its use for different languages. We also provide a survey on the development of the language resources needed by the TTS.
Access provided by Autonomous University of Puebla. Download to read the full chapter text
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
References
Black, A.W., Lenzo, K.A.: Flite: a small fast run-time synthesis engine. In: SSW4 (2001)
Black, A.W., Taylor, P.: Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis. In: Eurospeech 1997 (1997)
Black, A.W., Taylor, P., Caley, R.: The Festival Speech Synthesis (2002)
Bonafonte, A., Hoge, H., Kiss, I., Moreno, A., Ziegenhain, U., Heuvel, H., Hain, H., Wang, X., Garcia, M.: TC-STAR: Specifications of language resources and evaluation for speech synthesis. In: LREC 2006 (2006)
Breiman, L., Friedman, J.H., Olshen, R.A., Stone, C.J.: Classification and Regression Trees. Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton (1984)
Hirschberg, J., Prieto, P.: Training intonational phrasing rules automatically for english and spanish text-to-speech. Speech Communication 18 (1996)
Imai, S.: Cepstral analysis synthesis on mel frequency scale. In: ICASSP- 1983 (1983)
Moniz, H., Mata, A.I., Viana, C.: On filled and prolongations in european portuguese. In: Interspeech 2007 (2007)
Neto, J.P., Meinedo, H.: Combination of acoustic models in continuous speech recognition hybrid systems. In: ICSLP 2000 (2000)
Oliveira, B., Pona, C., Matos, D., Ribeiro, R.: Utilização de xml para desenvolvimento rápido de analisadores morfológicos flexíveis. In: XATA 2006 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (2006)
Paulo, S., Oliveira, L.: Generation of word alternative pronunciations using weighted finite state. In: Interspeech 2005 (2005)
Paulo, S., Oliveira, L.C.: MuLAS: A framework for automatically building multi-tier corpora. In: Interspeech 2007 (2007)
Ribeiro, R.D., Oliveira, L.C., Trancoso, I.M.: Using morphossyntactic information in tts systems: Comparing strategies for european portuguese. In: Mamede, N.J., Baptista, J., Trancoso, I., Nunes, M.d.G.V. (eds.) PROPOR 2003. LNCS, vol. 2721. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Taylor, P., Black, A.W., Caley, R.: Heterogeneous relation graphs as a formalism for representing linguistic information. Speech Communication 33 (2001)
Tokuda, K., Zen, H., Black, A.W.: An HMM-based speech synthesis system applied to english. In: 2002 IEEE SSW (2002)
Trancoso, I., Viana, C., Duarte, I., Matos, G.: Corpus de dialogo CORAL. In: PROPOR 1998 (1998)
van Santen, J.P.H., Buchsbaum, A.L.: Methods for optimal text selection. In: Eurospeech 1997 (1997)
Viana, C., Oliveira, L.C., Mata, A.I.: Prosodic phrasing: Machine and human evaluation. Speech Technology 6 (2003)
Vigário, M., Frota, S.: The intonation of standard and northern european portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 2(2) (2003)
Weiss, C., Paulo, S., Figueira, L., Oliveira, L.C.: Blizzard entry: Integrated voice building and synthesis for unit-selection tts. In: Blizzard 2007 (2007)
Young, S., Evermann, G., Hain, T., Kershaw, D., Moore, G., Odell, J., Ollason, D., Povey, D., Valtchev, V., Woodland, P.: The HTK Book (for HTK Version 3.2.1) (2002)
Ziegenhain, U., Hoge, H., Arranz, V., Bisani, M., Bonafonte, A., Castell, N., Conejero, D., Hartikainen, E., Maltese, G., Oflazer, K., Rabie, A., Razumikin, D., Shammass, S., and Zong, C.: Specification of corpora and word lists in 12 languages. Report 1.3, Siemens AG (April 2003)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Paulo, S. et al. (2008). DIXI – A Generic Text-to-Speech System for European Portuguese. In: Teixeira, A., de Lima, V.L.S., de Oliveira, L.C., Quaresma, P. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85980-2_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85980-2_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-85979-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-85980-2
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)