The MBROLA project: towards a set of high quality speech synthesizers free of use for non commercial purposes

Author

Dutoit, T. ; Pagel, V. ; Pierret, N. ; Bataille, F. ; van der Vrecken, O.

Author_Institution

TCTS Lab., Faculte Polytech. de Mons, Belgium

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

1393

Abstract

The aim of the MBROLA project, initiated by the Faculte Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium), is to obtain a set of speech synthesizers for as many voices, languages and dialects as possible, free of use for non-commercial and non-military applications. The ultimate goal is to boost academic research on speech synthesis, and particularly on prosody generation, known as one of the biggest challenges taken up by text-to-speech synthesizers for the years to come. Central to the MBROLA project is MBROLA 2.00, a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones. Executable files of this synthesizer have been made freely available for many computers/operating systems, as well as a first diphone database for a French male voice. We describe the terms of participation to the project, as a user, as an associated developer, or as a database provider

Keywords

database management systems; natural language interfaces; public domain software; speech synthesis; French male voice; MBROLA project; academic research; dialects; diphone concatenation; diphone database; executable files; languages; operating systems; prosody generation; speech synthesizers; text-to-speech synthesis; voices; Computational complexity; Control system synthesis; Databases; Natural languages; Piecewise linear techniques; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3555-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607874

Filename

607874