Statistical Vowelization of Arabic Text for Speech Synthesis in Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems

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作者：
Gu, Liang [1 ]
Zhang, Wei [1 ]
Tahir, Lazkin [1 ]
Gao, Yuqing [1 ]
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[1] IBM Corp, Div Res, TJ Watson Res Ctr, Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 USA
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INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 | 2007年
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TP18 [人工智能理论];
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081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
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Vowelization presents a principle difficulty in building text-to-speech synthesizers for speech-to-speech translation systems. In this paper, a novel log-linear modeling method is proposed that takes into account vowel and diacritical information at both the word level and character level. A unique syllable based normalization algorithm is then introduced to enhance both word coverage and data consistency. A recursive data generation and model training scheme is further devised to jointly optimize speech synthesizers and vowelizers for an English-Arabic speech translation system. The diacritization error rate is reduced by over 50% in vowelization experiments.
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