Automatic modeling and implementation of intonation for the arabic language in TTS systems
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This paper proposes a set of rules for the automatic generation of F0 contours for modern standard Arabic (MSA) affirmative and interrogative sentences. The objective is to finalize a model for the automatic processing of the intonative pattern in different TTS systems (e.g. synthesis by formants using Klatt synthesizer and synthesis by diphones, using a synthesizer based on PSOLA algorithm). The approach is based on the perceptive description of the Arabic intonation by extracting the pertinent variation of the intonative curve using a suitable stylization.
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