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The Bell Labs German Text-To-Speech System: An Overview (1999)
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| Venue: | Computer Speech and Language |
| Citations: | 18 - 6 self |
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@ARTICLE{Möbius99thebell,
author = {Bernd Möbius and Richard Sproat and Jan P. H. Van Santen and Joseph P. Olive},
title = {The Bell Labs German Text-To-Speech System: An Overview},
journal = {Computer Speech and Language},
year = {1999},
volume = {13},
pages = {2443--2446}
}
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Abstract
In this paper we present an overview of the German version of the Bell Labs text-to-speech system, a high-quality concatenative synthesis system with extensive text analysis capabilities. We discuss problems of text analysis, and our solutions to these problems, including: the integration of text normalization tasks into linguistic text analysis; the capability to morphologically analyze compounds and unseen words; name analysis and pronunciation. We briefly describe the prosodic components of the text-to-speech system and their underlying duration and intonation models. Finally, the phonetically motivated structure of the acoustic inventory is presented.
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bell lab german text-to-speech system high-quality concatenative synthesis system bell lab text-to-speech system intonation model german version extensive text analysis capability prosodic component motivated structure text normalization task unseen word underlying duration acoustic inventory text analysis linguistic text analysis text-to-speech system
