Corpus design for a unit selection TtS system with application to bulgarian

dc.contributor.author	Χαλαμανδάρης, Αιμίλιος	el
dc.contributor.author	Τσιάκουλης, Πύρρος	el
dc.contributor.author	Ράπτης, Σπύρος	el
dc.contributor.author	Καραμπέτσος, Σωτήριος Χ.	el
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-01T18:29:16Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-01T18:29:16Z
dc.date.issued	2015-05-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11400/9421
dc.rights	Αναφορά Δημιουργού-Μη Εμπορική Χρήση-Όχι Παράγωγα Έργα 3.0 Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.source	http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-20095-3_4	el
dc.subject	Text-to-speech software
dc.subject	Κείμενο-σε-ομιλία λογισμικό
dc.subject	Unit selection TTS
dc.subject	Επιλογή μονάδας TTS
dc.subject	Corpus design
dc.subject	Κώδικας σχεδιασμού
dc.subject	Concatenative speech synthesis
dc.subject	Αλυσιδωτή σύνθεση ομιλίας
dc.title	Corpus design for a unit selection TtS system with application to bulgarian	en
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heal.classification	Technology
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heal.classification	Robotics
heal.classification	Τεχνολογία
heal.classification	Ηλεκτρονική
heal.classification	Ρομποτική
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heal.keywordURI	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010005638
heal.contributorName	Vetulani, Zygmunt (eds.)	en
heal.identifier.secondary	Online ISBN 978-3-642-20095-3
heal.identifier.secondary	Print ISBN 978-3-642-20094-6
heal.identifier.secondary	DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20095-3_4
heal.language	en
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heal.publicationDate	2011
heal.bibliographicCitation	Chalamandaris, A., Tsiakoulis, P., Raptis , S. and Karabetsos, S. (2011). Corpus design for a unit selection TtS system with application to bulgarian. Human Language Technology: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. Springer – Verlag, pp. 35-46, 2011. Available from: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-20095-3_4.	en
heal.abstract	In this paper we present the process of designing an efficient speech corpus for the first unit selection speech synthesis system for Bulgarian, along with some significant preliminary results regarding the quality of the resulted system. As the initial corpus is a crucial factor for the quality delivered by the Text-to-Speech system, special effort has been given in designing a complete and efficient corpus for use in a unit selection TTS system. The targeted domain of the TTS system and hence that of the corpus is the news reports, and although it is a restricted one, it is characterized by an unlimited vocabulary. The paper focuses on issues regarding the design of an optimal corpus for such a framework and the ideas on which our approach was based on. A novel multi-stage approach is presented, with special attention given to language and speaker dependent issues, as they affect the entire process. The paper concludes with the presentation of our results and the evaluation experiments, which provide clear evidence of the quality level achieved.	en
heal.publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	en
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heal.bookName	Human Language Technology: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics	en