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An Open Source Speech Synthesis Frontend for HTS

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Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2015)

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This paper describes a software framework for HMM-based speech synthesis that we have developed and released to the public. The framework is compatible to the well-known HTS toolkit by incorporating hts_engine and Flite. It enables HTS voices to be used as Microsoft Windows system voices and to be integrated into Android and iOS apps. Non-English languages are supported through the capability to load Festival format pronunciation dictionaries and letter to sound rules. The release also includes an Austrian German voice model of a male, professional speaker recorded in studio quality as well as pronunciation dictionary, letter to sound rules and basic text preprocessing procedures for Austrian German. The framework is available under an MIT-style license.

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  1. FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Donau-City-Straße 1, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Markus Toman & Michael Pucher

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  1. University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Pavel Král

  2. University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Václav Matoušek

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Toman, M., Pucher, M. (2015). An Open Source Speech Synthesis Frontend for HTS. In: Král, P., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_33

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