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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS
Transactions ID Number: 27-692
Full Name: ZEYNEP ORHAN
Position: Assistant Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Computer Engineering Department Fatih University 34500
Country: TURKEY
Tel: 8663300/5529
Tel prefix: +90212
Fax: +902128663412
E-mail address: zorhan@fatih.edu.tr
Other E-mails: zorhan@gmail.com
Title of the Paper: The Framework Of The Turkish Syllable-Based Concatenative Text-To-Speech System With Exceptional Case Handling
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Zeynep Orhan,Zeliha Görmez
Email addresses of all the authors: zorhan@fatih.edu.tr,zcetin@fatih.edu.tr
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This paper describes the TTTS (Turkish Text-To-Speech) synthesis system, developed at Fatih University for Turkish language. The framework of the Turkish syllable-based concatenative text-to-speech system with exceptional case handling is introduced. TTTS is a concatenative TTS system aiming to advance the process of developing natural and human sounding Turkish voices. The resulting system is implemented by concatenating pieces of pre-recorded limited number of speech units that are stored in a database. Systems differ in the size of the stored speech units affecting the output range, the quality and the clarity, therefore the number of the concatenation units, synthetic units obtained and the computational power required should be kept in balance. The letters of the Turkish alphabet and the syllables that consist of two letters at most are used as the smallest phonemes in the context of this study. The syllables that have more than two letters are derived from th!
ese smallest units. The words, which are generally borrowed from other languages throughout cultural interactions, present exceptional behaviors and should be handled specifically. The results are evaluated by using the Degradation Mean Opinion Score (DMOS) method.
Keywords: Text-to-speech (tts), Speech Synthesis, Concatenative Turkish Tts.
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Special (Invited) Session: TTTS: TURKISH TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM
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