The Papageno TTS System
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One activity of Siemens in the TC-STAR project is to develop a high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system for UK English. Our main focus is the improvement of the text preprocessing and the acoustic synthesis. Therefore in the second evaluation we took part with the text preprocessing module (task M1) and the whole system (tasks S1 and S2) for UK English. In this article the three modules text preprocessing, prosody generation and acoustic synthesis are described. The results we achieved in the second evaluation are investigated.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006