Paper Info
Title
Versatile Speech Databases for High Quality Synthesis for Basque.
Abstract
This paper presents three new speech databases for standard Basque. They are designed primarily for corpus-based synthesis but each database has its specific purpose: 1) AhoSyn: high quality speech synthesis (recorded also in Spanish), 2) AhoSpeakers: voice conversion and 3) AhoEmo3: emotional speech synthesis. The whole corpus design and the recording process are described with detail. Once the databases were collected all the data was automatically labelled and annotated. Then, an HMM-based TTS voice was built and subjectively evaluated. The results of the evaluation are pretty satisfactory: 3.70 MOS for Basque and 3.44 for Spanish. Therefore, the evaluation assesses the quality of this new speech resource and the validity of the automated processing presented.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Speech Corpus,Speech Synthesis,Evaluation
Field
DocType
Citations 
Speech synthesis,Computer science,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Hidden Markov model,Database
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iñaki Sainz1426.45
Daniel Erro213915.90
Eva Navas330328.48
Inma Hernáez419621.64
Jon Sánchez516714.48
Ibon Saratxaga616914.42
Igor Odriozola7104.55