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This paper presents ARTIC, a brand-new Czech text-to-speech (TTS) system. ARTIC (Artificial Talker in Czech) is a concatenation-based system which consists of three main, and relatively independent, components: speech segment database (SSD), text analyser and speech synthesiser. A statistical approach to speech segment database construction is used. Text processing module includes the phonetic transcription of written text and the conversion to synthetic units. Speech processing is performed using a PSOLA algorithm.
This work was supported by the project No. VS97159 and No. MSM23520004 of the Ministry of Education of Czech Republic.
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Matoušek, J. (2000). Building a New Czech Text-to-Speech System Using Triphone-Based Speech Units. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45323-7_38
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