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A Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Database of Units for Concatenative Synthesis

@inproceedings{Esquerra1997ABS,
  title={A Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Database of Units for Concatenative Synthesis},
  author={I. Esquerra and A. Bonafonte and F. Vallverd{\'u} and A. Febrer},
  year={1997}
}

• I. Esquerra, A. Bonafonte, +1 author A. Febrer
• Published 1997
• Computer Science

Different databases of phonetic units are required in multilingual Text-to-Speech systems based on concatenative synthesis. We are currently developing a TTS system able to convert text either in Catalan and Spanish, with some of the modules being used indistinctly by the two languages while others are specific to each language. In order to reduce the total amount of units, a bilingual database has been obtained from two monolingual databases recorded by the same speaker, which contains all… Expand

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