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On Modelling Glottal Stop in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2005)

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This paper deals with the modelling of glottal stop for the purposes of Czech text-to-speech synthesis. Phonetic features of glottal stop are discussed here and a phonetic transcription rule for inserting glottal stop into the sequences of Czech phones is proposed. Two approaches to glottal stop modelling are introduced in the paper. The first one uses glottal stop as a stand-alone phone. The second one models glottal stop as an allophone of a vowel. Both approaches are evaluated from the point of view of both the automatic segmentation of speech and the quality of the resulting synthetic speech. Better results are obtained when glottal stop is modelled as a stand-alone phone.

Support for this work was provided by GA ASCR, project No. 1ET101470416.

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  1. Department of Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 306 14, Plzeň, Czech Republic

    Jindřich Matoušek & Jiří Kala

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Univerzitni 8, 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic

    Václav Matoušek , Pavel Mautner  & Tomáš Pavelka ,  & 

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Matoušek, J., Kala, J. (2005). On Modelling Glottal Stop in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3658. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551874_33

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