A single chip solution for text-to-speech synthesis

Aktan, Osman; Baskaya, I. Faik; Dündar, Günhan

doi:10.1109/ecctd.2005.1523157

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“…One can find many studies on Turkish TTS in literature. Some of the recent works are about realizing text-to-speech conversion in either software or hardware [5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. The others are specifically on prosodic improvements such as duration, pitch contour, stress, and tone analyses [12][13][14][15][16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The contribution of our work can be seen as building a Turkish TTS system with a card dedicated to voice synthesis in English. To our best knowledge, there are a less number of hardware realizations for Turkish TTS [5,7,10]. In [5], TMS5220 speech synthesizer is employed for purpose of generating synthetic speech.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Also, the quality of the produced speech is not evaluated in this work. In [7], a chip is developed for synthesizing Turkish Language. The authors propose a system with a language dependent database which employs prerecorded human speech examples.…”

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confidence: 99%

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This study is on hardware implementation of the Turkish text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis with a voice synthesizer card. Here, a fully functional TTS system, capable of synthesizing every Turkish text, including abbreviations, numbers, etc. is designed and implemented. The system is additionally enriched by applying some prosodic attributes for more intelligible and natural speech production. A set of rules required for proper pronunciation and stress patterns are precisely defined in a lexicon utilized for synthesizing Turkish speech. Performance of the developed system is assessed by the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) test. An average score of 3.29 out of 5 is achieved. It indicates that the proposed synthesizer can be successfully integrated to many practical Turkish TTS applications.

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