Title :
Speech generation for Albanian written texts
Author :
Hamiti, Mentor ; Dika, Agni
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Contemporary Sci. & Technol., South East Eur. Univ., Tetovo, Macedonia
Abstract :
Currently there are various technologies for converting written text into speech. Their common goal is the artificial generation of natural speech and in maximum is understandable. However, unfortunately such perfect convertors still can not be found. Therefore, research in this field is reasonable and with rising tendency, because it affects the advancement of performance of the existing solutions and defines instant achievements in the area concerned. Based on the fact that different world languages differ considerably in writing and in speech, it is impossible for such convertors to have universal application. This means that there are differences in the development of this field in different countries and for different languages. For local languages in particular, the researches in this field have not recorded any significant progress. This is probably because of the small number of users which could not justify the economic aspect. From this perspective, the question is: What happens with the Albanian language in this regard and what are the possibilities of conversion of written texts in Albanian language in to spoken Albanian? This is precisely the response given in this paper.
Keywords :
natural language processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; Albanian language; Albanian written text; natural speech generation; written text conversion; Acoustics; Algorithm design and analysis; Converters; Europe; Microphones; Software; Speech; Albanian; Generation; Language; Speech; Text;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), 2010 32nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cavtat/Dubrovnik
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5732-8