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Tts from zero: Building synthetic voices for new languages

Kominek, 2009

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Kominek J
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A developer wanting to create a speech synthesizer in a new voice for an under-resourced language faces hard problems. These include difficult decisions in defining a phoneme set and a laborious process of accumulating a pronunciation lexicon. Previously this has been …
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