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Design issues of a corpus-based speech synthesizer

The corpus-based approach is a new technique which has never been used in Hungary. It offers a more flexible and better quality synthesis. This article outlines the basic principles of this technique then a more detailed description follows of the development of a Hungarian corpus-based, object-related system being under development at the Speech Research Laboratory of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In the second part of the article statistical studies with weather forecasts are introduced then some considerations regarding the selection of announcers are presented. Finally some other design issues of corpus-based systems are addressed. Reviewed

Géza Németh | Péter Pesti | Tamas Bohm | Andras Nagy

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