HMM Based Myanmar Text to Speech System

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作者
Thu, Ye Kyaw [1 ]
Pa, Win Pa [2 ]
Ni, Jinfu [3 ]
Shiga, Yoshinori [3 ]
Finch, Andrew [1 ]
Hori, Chiori [3 ]
Kawai, Hisashi [3 ]
Sumita, Eiichiro [1 ]
机构
[1] NICT, Multilingual Translat Lab, Kyoto, Japan
[2] UCSY, Nat Language Proc Lab, Yangon, Myanmar
[3] NICT, Spoken Language Commun Lab, Kyoto, Japan
关键词
Speech Synthesis; Text to Speech (TTS); Hidden Markov Model (HMM); Ossian; Myanmar; GENERATION;
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O42 [声学];
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070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
This paper presents a complete statistical speech synthesizer for Myanmar which includes a syllable segmenter, text normalizer, grapheme-to-phoneme convertor, and an HMM-based speech synthesis engine. We believe this is the first such system for the Myanmar language. We performed a thorough human evaluation of the synthesizer relative to human and re-synthesized baselines. Our results show that our system is able to synthesize speech at a quality comparable with similar state-of-the-art synthesizers for other languages.
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页码:2237 / 2241
页数:5
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