Achievements in the field of voice synthesis for Romanian

This article presents some of the voice synthesis methods designed and implemented at the research center of Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, methods that include: the phonemes-based and diphones-based LPC synthesis, the multipulse MPE synthesis, the NSM synthesis method, the RR_PSOLA variant of TD-PSOLA, a method based on syllables concatenation, and a corpus-based method. Also there are presented some voice synthesis systems that were realised: the ROMVOX system, SprintVox system, LIGHTVOX system and HTS system.