A subsystem for text-to-speech (TTS) conversion for Macedonian language as a part of a system for support of humans with damaged sight will be presented in this paper. The whole system includes recognition of printed Cyrillic text, archiving, TTS conversion and printing on a Braille printer. A subsystem for real-time TTS conversion from unrestricted text is under development. The whole architec...

There are about 6,000 languages worldwide, most of which low-resource languages. Although the current speech synthesis (or text-to-speech, TTS) for major (e.g., Mandarin, English, French) has achieved good results, voice quality TTS Tibetan) still needs to be further improved. Because prosody plays a significant role in natural speech, article proposes two sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) Tibetan...

This paper proposes a time and space efficient architecture for a text-to-speech synthesis system (TTS). The proposed architecture can be efficiently used in those applications with unlimited domain, requiring multilingual or polyglot functionality. The integration of a queuing mechanism, heterogeneous graphs and finite-state machines gives a powerful, reliable and easily maintainable architect...

Since current Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesizers are mostly based on a technique known as synthesis by concatenation, the implementation of a high quality TTS requires huge storage space for a large number of speech segments. In order to compress the database in the TTS system, the use of speech coders would be an efficient solution. Waveform Interpolation (WI) has been shown to be an efficient ...

With the development of high quality TTS systems, application area of synthetic speech is increasing rapidly. Beyond the communication aids for the visually impaired and vocally handicap, TTS voices are being used in various educational, telecommunication and multimedia applications. All around the world people are trying to build TTS voice for their regional languages. TTS voice building requi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the incidence, distribution and radiological characteristics of dural ossification (DO) associated with ossification of ligamentum flavum (OLF) in the thoracic spine. DESIGN A retrospective radiographical analysis. SETTING This study was conducted at a single institution in China. PARTICIPANTS 53 patients with OLF who underwent posterior decompression surgery bet...

BACKGROUND Blunt chest trauma is second leading cause of death among trauma patients. Early identification and aggressive management of blunt thoracic trauma is essential to reduce the significant rates of morbidity and mortality. Thoracic trauma severity score (TTS) is a better predictor of chest trauma related complications. The objective of the study was to compare outcomes between low-and h...

Chironomic stylization is the process of real-time modification of intonation contours (f0 and tempo) using drawing/writing gestures with a stylus on a graphic tablet. The question addressed in this research is whether hand-made intonation stylization could improve or degrade expressivity and overall quality, compared to statistical modeling of prosody. A system for expressive TTS in French bas...