Designing a Speech Corpus for Estonian Unit Selection Synthesis
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چکیده
The article reports the development of a speech corpus for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis based on unit selection. Introduced are the principles of the corpus as well as the procedure of its creation, from text compilation to corpus analysis and text recording. Also described are the choices made in the process of producing a text of 400 sentences, the relevant lexical and morphological preferences, and the way to the most natural sentence context for the words used.
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