Using Festival for Hawaiian Text-to-Speech The Lexical Approach
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Festival, a speech synthesis system developed by the University of Edinburgh, provides the framework for converting natural language into text-tospeech rules. Hawaiian language, with only 8 consonants and five vowels, can be implemented on the Festival system. However, Hawaiian’s special characters, the kahako and the okina, need special consideration which is not available in the Festival system. This paper discusses building the Hawaiian language in Festival from the lexical approach using syllables, tokenizing rules, and phoneme matching.
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