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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| author | Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny Qurany, Shady Hamid, Salah Rashwan, Muhsen Atiyya, Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb Khallaaf, Galaal |
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| 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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| spelling | iium-228112020-08-31T20:54:53Z 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 |
| 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 |
| title | 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_short | Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS |
| title_sort | arabtalk, an implementation for arabic tts |
| topic | PJ6701 Modern Arabic dialects |
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