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Building a Unit Selection Speech Synthesiser for Malay Language Using FESTVOX and Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK)

Loo, Wai Keong and Ow, Siew Hock, and Roziati Zainuddin, (2007) Building a Unit Selection Speech Synthesiser for Malay Language Using FESTVOX and Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK). Chiang Mai University Journal of Natural Sciences, 6 (1). 149.

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University of Malaya, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology

Abstract

This paper describes the development of unit selection speech synthesiser for Malay language by using the Festival speech synthesiser system. The development processes involved the study of the phonological nature of language, letterto- sound modeling and clustering on the phone unit database. An HMM-based speech recognition tool kit and Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK) were also applied to label the unit boundaries automatically. To evaluate the naturalness of speech, an overall quality test on the synthesisers was also conducted to compare the naturalness of the earlier Multi Band Resynthesis Overlap and Add (MBROLA) diphone concatenation synthesiser and the new FESTVOX unit selection synthesiser.

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:Unit Selection Speech Synthesiser; Malay Language; Letter-to-Sound Modeling; Hidden Markov Model Toolkit, HTK; MBROLA Diphone Concatenation; FESTVOX Unit Selection Synthesiser
Subjects:Q Science
ID Code:1177

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