The Components Of A Text To Speech System
Journal Title: Romanian Journal of Human - Computer Interaction - Year 2009, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Converting words from written form into speakable forms strongly influences the performance of a text-to-speech (TTS) system. The text analysis component of a TTS system is responsible for parsing the language structure and meaning. It indicates all the knowledge about the text and reveals out the message. The core element of the text analysis component is the text parser which translates and disambiguates the human language and conveys the meaning among a potentially unlimited range of possibilities. In this paper the focus is on the text analysis component of a TTS system tailored for the Romanian language. Our goal is to produce an efficient parser of the written text and proper data structures to allow the tuning of the core unit selection component of our TTS system. We go beyond previous research by enhancing our parser with further computational efficiency and better output representation.
Authors and Affiliations
Mihai Alexandru Ordean, Andrei Şaupe, Mihaela Ordean, Dorian Gorgan
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