Title :
Evaluation of the Concatenative Turkish Text-to-Speech System
Author :
Orhan, Zeynep ; Görmez, Zeliha
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. Dept., Fatih Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
In this study, the framework of a concatenative text-to-speech system for Turkish is built and its evaluation techniques, namely MOS, DRT and CT have been considered. Naturalness and intelligibility of the Turkish TTS system is tested by MOS and CT-DRT respectively. Although the system uses simple techniques, it provides promising results for Turkish TTS, since the selected concatenative method is very well suited for Turkish language structure.
Keywords :
speech synthesis; CT-DRT; MOS; concatenative Turkish text-to-speech system; Algorithm design and analysis; Data preprocessing; Databases; Engines; Humans; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; System testing; Virtual colonoscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Image and Signal Processing, 2009. CISP '09. 2nd International Congress on
Conference_Location :
Tianjin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4129-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4131-0
DOI :
10.1109/CISP.2009.5303812
