NDLI: A rule-based grapheme-to-phone converter for tts systems in european portuguese

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Braga, D. Coelho, L. Vianna Resende, F.G.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Fac. of Arts of Univ. of La Coruna, La Coruna (Braga, D.)
Abstract	In this paper, a linguistically rule-based grapheme-to-phone (G2P) transcription algorithm is described for European Portuguese. A complete set of phonological and phonetic transcription rules regarding the European Portuguese standard variety is presented. This algorithm was implemented and tested by using online newspaper articles. The obtained experimental results gave rise to 98.80% of accuracy rate. Future developments in order to increase this value are foreseen. Our purpose with this work is to develop a module/ tool that can improve synthetic speech naturalness in European Portuguese. Other applications of this system can be expected like language teaching/learning. These results, together with our perspectives of future improvements, have proved the dramatic importance of linguistic knowledge on the development of Text-to-Speech systems (TTS).
Starting Page	328
Ending Page	333
File Size	1370601
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9788589748049
DOI	10.1109/ITS.2006.4433293
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-09-03
Publisher Place	Brazil
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Speech synthesis Natural languages Synthesizers Dictionaries Transducers Gas insulated transmission lines Stability Writing Error analysis Testing text-to-speech systems Grapheme-to-phone converter phonological rules speech processing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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