The UPC Text-to-Speech System for Spanish and Catalan

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Title:	The UPC Text-to-Speech System for Spanish and Catalan
Author:	Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Esquerra Llucià, Ignasi; Febrer, A; Rodríguez Fonollosa, José Adrián; Vallverdú Bayés, Sisco
Other authors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. VEU - Grup de Tractament de la Parla
Abstract:	This paper summarizes the text-to-speech system that has been developed in the Speech Group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). The system is composed of a core and different interfaces so that it is compatible for research, for telephone applications (either CTI boards or standard ISDN PC cards supporting CAPI), and Windows applications developed using Microsoft SAPI. The paper reviews the system making emphasis in the parts of the system which are language dependent and which allow the reading of bilingual text (Spanish and Catalan). The paper also presents new approaches in prosodic modeling (segmental duration modeling) and generation of the database of speech segments, which have been introduced last year.
Abstract:	Peer Reviewed
Subject(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació -Telecommunication -Telecomunicació
Rights:	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Document type:	Article - Published version Conference Object
Published by:	ISCA
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