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This paper presents the design of the text analysis component of a TTS system for the Romanian language. Our text analysis is performed in two steps: document structure detection and text normalization. The output is a tree-based representation of the processed data. Parsing is made efficient with the help of the Boost Spirit LL parser [1], the usage of this tool allowing for a greater flexibility in the source code and in the output representation.
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Şaupe, A., Teodorescu, L.R., Ordean, M.A., Boldizsar, R., Ordean, M., Silaghi, G.C. (2009). Efficient Parsing of Romanian Language for Text-to-Speech Purposes. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_45
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