Fryss: a First Step towards Frisian Tts
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In this MA-project a Dutch TTS system based on Festival, NeXTeNS, has been changed step by step into a Frisian system. As for many minority languages, Frisian too has very few digital resources. So, the challenge of this project is to make the system as intelligible as possible with minimal resources. The resulting TTS system is called FRYSS. At the end of the thesis period an evaluation was carried out with native speakers of Frisian. The results show that the TTS system sounds reasonably intelligible. This project demonstrates that a TTS prototype can be built rapidly using existing modules and voices.
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