UNIT SELECTION VOICE FOR AMHARIC USING FESTVOX

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 103-107

  Mariam, Sebsibe H ^a   Kishore, S P ^a,b,c   Black, Alan W ^b   Kumar, Rohit ^a   Sangal, Rajeev ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; FESTVOX; PERCEPTUAL TEST; SYLLABLE STRUCTURES; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85100721210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. Alan W. Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, “Building Synthetic Voices - for FestVox 2.0 Edition,” 2003 http://www.festvox.org/bsv/
2. Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley, “The Festival Speech Synthesis System -for The Festival Speech Synthesis System,” Edition 1.4, 1999 http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/
3. 2S“© ¾T`— cªc¨< ukLM k^[w:: (“Modern Amharic Grammar in a simple approach”) 96
4. Mulugeta Seyoum, “The syllable Structure and Syllablification in Amharic,” Masters of philosophy in general linguistic thesis, Department of Linguistics, Trondheim, Norway, 2001
5. Andrew Radfors et.al. “Linguistics: An Introduction,” Cambridge University Press. 1999
6. Alan W. Black and Paul Taylor, “Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis,” in proceedings of EUROSPEECH’97, page-601-604, 1997