Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Unit Selection Speech Synthesis

The paper gives a brief summarisation of preparation and recording of a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for Czech unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. Special attention is paid to the process of two-phase orthographic annotations of recorded sentences with regard to their cohere...

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Published inText, Speech and Dialogue pp. 326 - 333
Main Authors Matoušek, Jindřich, Romportl, Jan
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Glottal Closure Instant
Speech Corpus
Speech Signal
Speech Synthesis
Unit Selection
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Summary:The paper gives a brief summarisation of preparation and recording of a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for Czech unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. Special attention is paid to the process of two-phase orthographic annotations of recorded sentences with regard to their coherence.
Bibliography:Support for this work was provided by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, project No. 2C06020, and the EU 6th Framework Programme IST-034434.
ISBN:9783540746270
3540746277
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_43