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This paper describes an approach that allows text-to-speech synthesisers to be produced for new languages for use with assistive applications. The approach uses a simple rule-based text-to-phoneme stage. The phonemes are passed to an existing phoneme-to-speech system for another language. We show that the match between the language to be synthesised and the language on which the phoneme-to-speech system is important for the perceived quality of the speech but not necessarily the understandability of speech.
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Evans, D.G., Polyzoaki, K., Blenkhorn, P. (2002). An Approach to Producing New Languages for Talking Applications for Use by Blind People. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_110
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