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#1 HMM based myanmar text to speech system [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi1] [REL]

Authors: Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita

This paper presents a complete statistical speech synthesizer for Myanmar which includes a syllable segmenter, text normalizer, grapheme-to-phoneme convertor, and an HMM-based speech synthesis engine. We believe this is the first such system for the Myanmar language. We performed a thorough human evaluation of the synthesizer relative to human and re-synthesized baselines. Our results show that our system is able to synthesize speech at a quality comparable with similar state-of-the-art synthesizers for other languages.

Subject: INTERSPEECH.2015 - Speech Synthesis