Vietnamese speech synthesis with novel pairing phrase method built in embedded systems

Embedded systems are being further developed and applied in speech synthesizer. In the previous Text To Speech (TTS) systems, speech synthesis was only built in personal computer. In this paper, a TTS Vietnamese system with pairing phrase method based on embedded design is presented. The proposed system is built on BeagleBone Black and Embedded Linux. The prosodic quality is relatively well. The listener could understand the meaning of speech, and the proposed TTS system achieves asymptotic naturalness of speech.

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