Generation of synthetic speech from Turkish text
13th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2005, Antalya, Türkiye, 4 - 08 Eylül 2005, ss.165-168, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
- Basıldığı Şehir: Antalya
- Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.165-168
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In this paper, we design and develop an intelligible and natural sounding corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis system for Turkish. The implemented system contains a front-end comprised of text analysis, phonetic analysis, and optional use of transplanted prosody. The unit selection algorithm is based on commonly used Viterbi decoding algorithm. The back-end is the speech waveform generation based on the harmonic coding of speech and overlapand- add mechanism. In this study, a Turkish phoneme set has been designed and a pronunciation lexicon for root words has been constructed. For assessing the intelligibility of the synthesized speech, a DRT word list for Turkish has been compiled. The developed system obtained 4.2 Mean Opinion Score (MOS) in the listening tests.