Development of Text-To-Speech system for Latvian

Development of Text-to-Speech Synthesizer for Latvian

Media monitoring system for latvian radio and TV broadcasts

Media monitoring allows to capture media exposure of people, organizations and other important topics. This paper presents a media monitoring system for Latvian radio and television broadcasts. This system uses an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module to convert audio and video files to text and to extract keywords of interest. The system has been developed in close cooperation with Latvian...

Designing a Speech Corpus for the Development and Evaluation of Dictation Systems in Latvian

In this paper the authors present a speech corpus designed and created for the development and evaluation of dictation systems in Latvian. The corpus consists of over nine hours of orthographically annotated speech from 30 different speakers. The corpus features spoken commands that are common for dictation systems for text editors. The corpus is evaluated in an automatic speech recognition sce...

Latvian speech-to-text transcription service

In this demonstration paper, we introduce the first publicly available Speech-To-Text transcription service for the Latvian language. We present its main features, the details of automatic speech recognition (ASR) system used in this service, software architecture, and an evaluation of recognition quality. The service will provide regular people with the opportunity to transcribe their own audi...

مراحل و نحوه ی تهیه ی دادگان های صوتی هجایی و دایفونی برای سامانه ی تبدیل متن به گفتار فارسی

Abstract Speech databases are part of the concatenative text to speech synthesis systems. Phonetic quality of the databases plays a significant role in the naturalness of the synthesized speech. This paper introduces two syllable and diphone speech databases for Persian and investigates the way of their development and their specifications and their advantages to each other. ...