Synthetic regional Danish
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The speech technological scene in Denmark is slowly gaining public and commercial attention, and today there is a call for more diverse products than just recognition and synthesis of standard Danish (i.e. the Copenhagen regiolect). In this working paper, we demonstrate how an existing synthesis engine may be tuned to provide a regiolect speaking voice, involving in its simplest form prosodic alterations only. We present the first publicly accessible Danish synthetic voice for a non-standard regiolect in casu Århusian.
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