Title :
Preliminaries to a Romanian speech database
Author :
Boldea, M. ; Doroga, A. ; Dumitrescu, T. ; Pescaru, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Politehnic Inst., Timisoara, Romania
Abstract :
The paper presents the design and early recording stages of a Romanian speech database to be used for development of both speech recognition and speech synthesis systems. The recognition part is built around a core patterned after the EUROM 1 design, so that it has good compatibility, and includes both read and semispontaneous speech. The synthesis part consists of a read speech corpus from which diphones are to be extracted to build concatenation based TTS systems, and read material to serve as benchmark data for the administration of a Romanian version of the Modified Rhyme Test (A.S. House et al., 1965)
Keywords :
database management systems; feature extraction; natural languages; speech processing; speech recognition; speech synthesis; EUROM 1 design; Modified Rhyme Test; Romanian speech database; benchmark data; concatenation based TTS systems; diphones; read material; read speech corpus; semispontaneous speech; speech recognition; speech synthesis systems; Acoustic testing; Automatic speech recognition; Automatic testing; Databases; Materials testing; Natural languages; Speech analysis; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.608013
