HMM-based Speech Synthesis in Basque Language using HTS

This paper shows how an HMM-based speech synthesize r in Basque language has been built using HTS and AhoTTS (the TTS system developed at Aholab). The resulting syst em, which is being used only for research purposes at p resent, has a highly satisfactory performance.

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