Romvox Experiments Regarding Unrestricted Text To Speech Synthesis For The Romanlan Language
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چکیده
The ROMVOX Text-toaSpeech synthesis system developed by our team is the first one that allowed the synthesis of any unrestricted Romanian text with intonation facilities on 1BM-PC compatible computers. During the last years of research several version of text-to-speech systems were achieved, trying to enhance their facilities. Our paper describes the present stage of our experiments performed in order to improve the naturalness of the generated voice.
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