A Rule - Based Text - to - Speech System for Portuguese
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This paper describes the latest progress in the development of a text-to-speech system for Portuguese. The system comprises 4 major modules: text normalization, linguistic and phonetic processing, generation of the synthesizer parameters and synthesis. The present rule-based version, based on the Klatt80 formant synthesizer, has achieved promising results, namely in what concerns the performance of stress assignment, phonetic transcription and prosodic parsing. The paper describes each of the major modules, referring some language-dependent issues.
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