Unit Selection Cost Function Exploration Using an A* Based Text-to-Speech System

2014 ◽  
pp. 432-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Guennec ◽  
Damien Lolive
Keyword(s):  
Cost Function ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Unit Selection

scholarly journals Building a natural sounding Text-To-Speech system for the Nepali language: research and development challenges and solutions

Gipan ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 106-116
Author(s):  
Roop Shree Ratna Bajracharya ◽  
Santosh Regmi ◽  
Bal Krishna Bal ◽  
Balaram Prasain
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Synthesis System ◽  
Unit Selection ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Shed Light

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis has come far from its primitive synthetic monotone voices to more natural and intelligible sounding voices. One of the direct applications of a natural sounding TTS systems is the screen reader applications for the visually impaired and the blind community. The Festival Speech Synthesis System uses a concatenative speech synthesis method together with the unit selection process to generate a natural sounding voice. This work primarily gives an account of the efforts put towards developing a Natural sounding TTS system for Nepali using the Festival system. We also shed light on the issues faced and the solutions derived which can be quite overlapping across other similar under-resourced languages in the region.

Embedded unit selection text-to-speech synthesis for mobile devices

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotiris Karabetsos ◽  
Pirros Tsiakoulis ◽  
Aimilios Chalamandaris ◽  
Spyros Raptis
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Unit Selection ◽  
Text To Speech Synthesis ◽  
Embedded Unit
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