DocumentCode
3339153
Title
Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis
Author
Black, Alan W. ; Lenzo, Kevin A.
Author_Institution
Language Technol. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Volume
3
fYear
2004
fDate
17-21 May 2004
Abstract
The paper presents a framework for building multilingual text-to-speech systems. It addresses the issue at three levels. First it discusses the necessary steps required to build a synthetic voice from scratch in a new language. The second concerns the building of a new voice without recording any new acoustic data, and the restrictions that imposes. The third more speculative part discusses the steps that would be necessary to allow high quality synthesis of new languages by recording only minimal amounts in that language.
Keywords
natural languages; speech synthesis; text analysis; voice equipment; acoustic data; multilingual text-to-speech synthesis; synthetic voice; Buildings; Cepstral analysis; Disk recording; Documentation; Loudspeakers; Natural languages; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Text analysis;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on
ISSN
1520-6149
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8484-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1326656
Filename
1326656
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