A Complete Linguistic Analysis for an Italian Text-to-Speech System

Ferri, Giuliano; Pierucci, Piero; Sanzone, Donatella

doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1894-4_10

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“…The number of unusual character sequences in a text that must be translated into speech obviously depends on the type and subject of text and on the writing correctness [5], [7]. Since the writing rules are not widely known in detail by the majority of people, we think that a way to enforce correct writing is to include our preprocessor (or even our entire TTS system) in a spelling checker program that will let the user decide on any ambiguity.…”

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On a hybrid time domain-LPC technique for prosody superimposing used for speech synthesis

Burileanu¹,

Cogălniceanu²,

Sima³

et al. 1999

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

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Text preprocessing plays an important role in a textto-speech (TTS) synthesis system. The correct detection and interpretation of input strings influence the overall system accuracy and contribute to the conversion of an unrestricted text into synthetic speech. This paper describes the design philosophy of a preprocessing module for a TTS system in Romanian language. The preprocessor is implemented using the standard flex/bison lexer and parser generators. The paper discusses the text preprocessing task and the major difficulties connected with Romanian language, proposes a set of definitions and rules, gives some implementation details and concludes with a few considerations about the TTS system and performances of the preprocessing module.

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confidence: 99%