Expression of basic emotions in Estonian parametric text-to-speech synthesis

Text-to-speech synthesis of estonian

The aim of this text-to-speech synthesis system is to convert the Estonian orthographic text to an orthoepically correct and natural-sounding spoken text for a wide range of practical application (especially for visual and speech disabled persons).

Modelling the temporal structure of newsreaders' speech on neural networks for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis

Generation of natural-sounding synthetic speech from a text requires perfect control over the temporal structure of speech flow. The present paper describes an attempt to replace the rule-based durational model, hitherto used in Estonian text-tospeech synthesis, by neural networks (NN). For this aim, fluent speech of radio announcers and newsreaders was analysed and its temporal structure was m...

Modelling Speech Temporal Structure for Estonian Text-to-speech Synthesis: Feature Selection

The article discusses the principles of selecting features for modelling the temporal structure of Estonian speech, using different types of read-out texts, with a view to text-tospeech synthesis (TTS). Feature selection is known to depend on certain general issues regulating speech temporal structure, as well as on some language specific aspects. The durational model of Estonian stands out for...

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Full-duplex Speech-to-text System for Estonian

The paper describes a distributed online speech-to-text system. The main features of the system are real-time speech recognition and full-duplex user experience, meaning that the partially recognized utterance is progressively displayed to the user during speaking. Other benefits include easy client-server communication protocol and system scalability to many concurrent user sessions. The paper...