AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

E-Mese: A Hungarian voice for the Bonn Open Synthesis System

by Eva Szekely




Institution: Universiteit Utrecht
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Year: 2009
Keywords: Letteren; Text-to-Speech; Hungarian; Unit Selection; Bonn Open Synthesis System; speech synthesis
Record ID: 1250302
Full text PDF: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/35977


Abstract

E-Mese is a Hungarian voice created within BOSS (Bonn Open Synthesis System) for a restricted unlimited domain of children`s literature. The aim of the voice is to study relevant language specific issues of Hungarian concerning unit selection speech synthesis, such as offering a possible solution for synthesizing inflected word forms that are out-of-vocabulary due to the characteristic strong agglutination of Hungarian.