Modelo de duración para conversión de texto a voz en euskera

This paper presents the modelling of phone durations in standard Basque, to be included in a text-to-speech system. The statistical modelling has been done using binary regression trees and a large corpus containing 57.300 phones. Several experiments have been performed, testing different sets of predicting factors. The result when predicting durations with this model has a RMSE of 22.23 ms.