Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS

This paper describes the ARABTALK® Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, developed at RDI , for Arabic language. ARABTALK® is a state-of-the-art corpus based concatenative TTS system. The system employs Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) statistical prosody based models for duration, energy, and glob...

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Main Authors:	Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny, Qurany, Shady, Hamid , Salah, Rashwan, Muhsen, Atiyya, Muhammad, Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb, Khallaaf, Galaal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	PJ6701 Modern Arabic dialects
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/2/FullText.pdf

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spelling	iium-228112013-08-02T07:09:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/ Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny Qurany, Shady Hamid , Salah Rashwan, Muhsen Atiyya, Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb Khallaaf, Galaal PJ6701 Modern Arabic dialects This paper describes the ARABTALK® Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, developed at RDI , for Arabic language. ARABTALK® is a state-of-the-art corpus based concatenative TTS system. The system employs Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) statistical prosody based models for duration, energy, and global pitch contour prediction. In addition, it has a real time synthesis by selection algorithm to explore large speech corpus. ARABTALK® has a hidden Markov models (HMMs) based procedure to automatically time-align new voices transcriptions to their acoustic phoneme boundaries. In this framework, a mature phonology framework has been developed and many perfect rule based models were utilized in the process of letter to sound conversion. The system is multi-user and safe-threaded enabled for server based applications. This research aims to advance the process of developing high quality Arabic TTS synthesis, which yields natural and human sounding Arabic voices. 2011-12-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/2/FullText.pdf Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny and Qurany, Shady and Hamid , Salah and Rashwan, Muhsen and Atiyya, Muhammad and Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb and Khallaaf, Galaal (2011) Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS. European Languages Resources Association, 9 (1). pp. 3-10. ISSN 1026-8200
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spellingShingle	PJ6701 Modern Arabic dialects Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny Qurany, Shady Hamid , Salah Rashwan, Muhsen Atiyya, Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb Khallaaf, Galaal Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS
description	This paper describes the ARABTALK® Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, developed at RDI , for Arabic language. ARABTALK® is a state-of-the-art corpus based concatenative TTS system. The system employs Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) statistical prosody based models for duration, energy, and global pitch contour prediction. In addition, it has a real time synthesis by selection algorithm to explore large speech corpus. ARABTALK® has a hidden Markov models (HMMs) based procedure to automatically time-align new voices transcriptions to their acoustic phoneme boundaries. In this framework, a mature phonology framework has been developed and many perfect rule based models were utilized in the process of letter to sound conversion. The system is multi-user and safe-threaded enabled for server based applications. This research aims to advance the process of developing high quality Arabic TTS synthesis, which yields natural and human sounding Arabic voices.
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author	Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny Qurany, Shady Hamid , Salah Rashwan, Muhsen Atiyya, Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb Khallaaf, Galaal
author_facet	Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny Qurany, Shady Hamid , Salah Rashwan, Muhsen Atiyya, Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb Khallaaf, Galaal
author_sort	Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny
title	Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS
title_short	Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS
title_full	Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS
title_fullStr	Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS
title_full_unstemmed	Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS
title_sort	arabtalk, an implementation for arabic tts
publishDate	2011
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/2/FullText.pdf
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Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS

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