International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS)
IJITCS Vol. 10, No. 11, 8 Nov. 2018
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A Comparison between Syllable, Di-Phone, and Phoneme-based Myanmar Speech Synthesis
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Author(s)
Aye Thida
1,*
Chaw Su Hlaing
1
Index Terms
Myanmar language, phoneme, concatenative speech synthesis
Abstract
Among the speech synthesis approach, concatenative method is one of the most popular method which can produce more natural sounding speech output. The most important challenge in this method is choosing an appropriate unit for creating a database. The present used speech units are word, syllable, di-phone, tri-phone and phoneme. The speech quality may be trade-off between the selected speech units. This paper presents the three speech synthesis system of Myanmar language, respectively based on syllable, di-phone and phoneme speech units by using concatenation method. Then, we compare the speech quality of the three systems, using the subjective tests.
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Aye Thida, Chaw Su Hlaing, "A Comparison between Syllable, Di-Phone, and Phoneme-based Myanmar Speech Synthesis", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), Vol.10, No.11, pp.58-66, 2018. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2018.11.06
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