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Using Morphossyntactic Information in TTS Systems: Comparing Strategies for European Portuguese

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2003)

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To improve the quality of the speech produced by a Text-to- Speech (TTS) system, it is important to obtain the maximum amount of information from the input text that may help in this task. This covers a wide range of possibilities that can go from the simple conversion of non orthographic items to more complex syntactic and semantic analysis. In this paper, we present the development of a morphossyntactic tagging system and analyze its influence on the performance of a TTS system for European Portuguese.

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  1. INESC-ID Lisboa/ISCTE, Portugal

    Ricardo Ribeiro

  2. Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC-ID Lisboa/IST, R. Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisbon, Portugal

    Luís Oliveira & Isabel Trancoso

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  1. L2F, INESC-ID Lisboa, Technical University of Lisbon, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede  & Isabel Trancoso  & 

  2. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  3. NILC, ICMC-USP São-Carlos, Av. do Trabalhador São-Carlense, 400, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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Ribeiro, R., Oliveira, L., Trancoso, I. (2003). Using Morphossyntactic Information in TTS Systems: Comparing Strategies for European Portuguese. In: Mamede, N.J., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., das Graças Volpe Nunes, M. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45011-4_21

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