Title
Building High Quality Databases for Minority Languages such as Galician.
Abstract
This paper describes the result of a joint R&D project between Microsoft Portugal and the Signal Theory Group of the University of Vigo (Spain), where a set of language resources was developed with application to Text-to-Speech synthesis. First, a large Corpus of 10000 Galician sentences was designed and recorded by a professional female speaker. Second, a lexicon with phonetic and grammatical information of over 90000 entries was collected and reviewed manually by a linguist expert. And finally, these resources were used for a MOS (Mean Opinion Score) perceptual test to compare two state-of-the-art speech synthesizers of both groups, the one from Microsoft based on HMM, and the one from the University of Vigo based on unit selection.
Year
Venue
Field
2010
LREC 2010 - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Signal theory,Computer science,Perceptual test,Speech recognition,Mean opinion score,Lexicon,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Hidden Markov model
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.42
References 
Authors
7
7