High quality text-to-speech system in Spanish for handicapped people
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چکیده
This paper describes a high-quality Text-to-Speech system based on the concatenation of diphonemes with the MBR-PSOLA algorithm. Since it was designed as a substitute of natural voice for handicapped people, it must offer a easy to hear speech, with emotional and emphatic information embedded in it. This is obtained with the prosody generator, which uses phonological patterns and a grammatical database to vary three speech parameters: pitch, amplitude and duration. This system accepts plain text, which can be complemented with data about emotions and emphasis.
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