TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS: A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR CROATIAN LANGUAGE

Authors

  • Miran Pobar
  • Sandra Martinčić-Ipšić
  • Ivo Ipšić

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a Croatian text-to-speech system capable of synthesizing speech from arbitrary text. Input text in normalized form is first transcribed into a phonetic string (grapheme-to-phoneme conversion) and then processed by a TD-PSOLA based synthesizer. A procedure for automatic selection of diphones from a spoken corpus is proposed. A Croatian language diphone database was built for the system. Subjective quality evaluations of the resulting speech were performed, as well as tests for intelligibility.

Author Biographies

Miran Pobar

Department for Informatics, University of Rijeci, Rijeka, Croatia

Sandra Martinčić-Ipšić

Department for Informatics, University of Rijeci, Rijeka, Croatia

Ivo Ipšić

Faculty of engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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Published

2008-12-15

Issue

Engineering Review Vol 28. No. 2

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