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This paper describes one of the aspects of an ongoing research to improve the synthetic speech quality for a Brazilian Portuguese text-to-speech synthesis system. This paper focuses on the grapheme-phone transcription algorithm. A complete set of rules for every grapheme is presented. Experimental results, obtained running the proposed algorithm through a text database, gave rise to 98,43% of accuracy rate.
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Barbosa, F., Pinto, G., Resende, F.G., Gonçalves, C.A., Monserrat, R., Rosa, M.C. (2003). Grapheme-Phone Transcription Algorithm for a Brazilian Portuguese TTS. 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_4
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