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In this article we describe the first Text To Speech (TTS) system for the Greek language based on Festival architecture. We discuss practical implementation details and we capitalize on the preparation of the diphone database and on the prediction of phoneme duration module implemented with CART tree technique. Two male databases where used for two different speech synthesis engines, namely, residual LPC synthesis and Mbrola technique.
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Zervas, P., Potamitis, I., Fakotakis, N., Kokkinakis, G. (2002). On the First Greek-TTS Based on Festival Speech Synthesis. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_35
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