TTS Experiments: Romanian Prosody
Journal Title: Acta Technica Napocensis- Electronica-Telecomunicatii (Electronics and Telecommunications) - Year 2009, Vol 50, Issue 1
Abstract
In a text-to-speech synthesis system, prosody prediction and generation, is one of the most critical tasks. Prosody is composed by the melody, intensity and by the rhythm of speech. The current paper focuses on the Romanian intonation prediction and generation within our TTS system. Experimental results achieved by the development of different prosodic modules are presented in this work. The process is followed from text pre-processing, sentence type determination, through automatic labeling of sentences, till the labeling and transposing of the intonation curves. The creation and storage of relative intonation curves, as the developed different rule systems described in XML are also topic of this work.
Authors and Affiliations
Arpad Zsolt BODO, Gavril TODEREAN, Ovidiu BUZA
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