Introducing the Speect speech synthesis platform

نویسندگان

  • Johannes A. Louw
  • Daniel R. van Niekerk
  • Georg I. Schlünz
چکیده

We introduce a new open source speech synthesis engine and related set of tools: Speect is designed to be a portable and flexible synthesis engine, equally relevant as a research platform and runtime synthesis system in multilingual environments. In this paper we document our approach to the rapid development of British English voices for the 2010 Blizzard Challenge using this platform and resources.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010