A rule-based approach to build a text-to-speech system for Romanian

Author

Buza, Ovidiu ; Toderean, Gavril ; Domokos, Jozsef

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron. & Telecommun., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 June 2010

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

86

Abstract

We present in this article our approach for building a text-to-speech system for Romanian. Main stages of this work were: voice signal analysis, region segmentation, construction of acoustic database, text analysis, unit and prosody detection, unit matching, concatenation and speech synthesis. In our approach we consider word syllables as basic units and stress indicating intrasegmental prosody. A special characteristic of current approach is rule-based processing of both speech signal analyse and text analyse stages.

Keywords

speech synthesis; text analysis; Romania; acoustic database; region segmentation; rule-based approach; rule-based processing; speech signal analysis; speech synthesis; text analysis; text-to-speech system; unit matching; voice signal analysis; Acoustic signal detection; Buildings; Databases; Signal analysis; Signal processing; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Stress; Text analysis; rule-based approach; syllable detection; text-to-speech;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (COMM), 2010 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6360-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCOMM.2010.5509108

Filename

5509108