Bootstrapping Kelantan and Sarawak Malay dialect models on text and phonetic analyses in text-to-speech system
Text-to-speech (TTS) technologies have matured and they have been equipped and embedded in many tools, for instance in mobile phones, robotics and telephony system. For building a TTS system, resources that required are speech corpus, pronunciation dictionary and text. Nevertheless, building an unde...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/45395/1/JASMINA%20KHAW%20YEN%20MIN.pdf |
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| Summary: | Text-to-speech (TTS) technologies have matured and they have been equipped and embedded in many tools, for instance in mobile phones, robotics and telephony system. For building a TTS system, resources that required are speech corpus, pronunciation dictionary and text. Nevertheless, building an under-resourced Malay dialect TTS system is challenging. The problems of limited language resources in Malay dialects include inexistence of Malay dialects pronunciation dictionaries, quasi-unknown of the sets of Malay dialects phonemes, no standard orthography in Malay dialects and limited written text of Malay dialects. |
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