jSynt: A Czech Text-to-Speech System written in JAVA
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چکیده
This paper deals with a speech synthesis. Speech synthesis is an artificial production of speech by a computer. Speech synthesis from a text is called Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. The main goal of this paper is to propose and implement a TTS system based on the MBROLA (Multiband Resynthesis Overlap-Add) project. We implement jSynt tool, a TTS system written in java. The first version includes two main languages, Czech and English. However the design of the system is general enough to fit other languages. The resulting synthesized speech is understandable, but not very natural.
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