Tools and resources for speech synthesis arising from a Welsh TTS project

Briony Williams, Rhys James Jones, Ivan Uemlianin


Abstract
The WISPR project ("Welsh and Irish Speech Processing Resources") has been building text-to-speech synthesis systems for Welsh and for Irish, as well as building links between the developers and potential users of the software. The Welsh half of the project has encountered various challenges, in the areas of the tokenisation of input text, the formatting of letter-to-sound rules, and the implementation of the "greedy algorithm" for text selection. The solutions to these challenges have resulted in various tools which may be of use to other developers using Festival for TTS for other languages. These resources are made freely available.
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
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May
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2006
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Genoa, Italy
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Briony Williams, Rhys James Jones, and Ivan Uemlianin. 2006. Tools and resources for speech synthesis arising from a Welsh TTS project. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Tools and resources for speech synthesis arising from a Welsh TTS project (Williams et al., LREC 2006)
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