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Text and speech corpora are a prerequisite for the development of an effective commercial text-to-speech system, using the concatenative technology. Given that such a system needs to synthesize both common and domain-specific discourses, the considered corpora are of main importance. This paper presents the authors’ experience in creating a corpus for the Romanian language, designed to support a concatenative TTS system, able to reproduce common and domain-specific sentences with naturalness.
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Ordean, M.A., Şaupe, A., Ordean, M., Silaghi, G.C., Giurgea, C. (2012). A Romanian Language Corpus for a Commercial Text-To-Speech Application. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_49
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