Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud
Alistair Conkie, Thomas Okken, Yeon-Jun Kim, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
Abstract
The AT&T VoiceBuilder provides a new tool to researchers and practitioners who want to have their voices synthesized by a high-quality commercial-grade text-to-speech system without the need to install, configure, or manage speech processing software and equipment. It is implemented as a web service on the AT&T Speech Mashup Portal.The system records and validates users' utterances, processes them to build a synthetic voice and provides a web service API to make the voice available to real-time applications through a scalable cloud-based processing platform. All the procedures are automated to avoid human intervention. We present experimental comparisons of voices built using the system.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1416
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3317–3321
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/716_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Alistair Conkie, Thomas Okken, Yeon-Jun Kim, and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio. 2012. Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3317–3321, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud (Conkie et al., LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/716_Paper.pdf