Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Prosody Modeling for Korean Conversational Style TTS

한국어 대화체 TTS 개발을 위한 발음 및 운율 추정

  • Lee, Jin-Sik (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH) ;
  • Kim, Seung-Won (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH) ;
  • Kim, Byeong-Chang (Computer and Information Communications Engineering, Catholic University of Daegu) ;
  • Lee, Geun-Bae (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH)
  • 이진식 (포항공과대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 김승원 (포항공과대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 김병창 (대구가톨릭대학교 컴퓨터정보통신공학부) ;
  • 이근배 (포항공과대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Published : 2006.11.17

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a method for extracting grapheme-to-phoneme conversion rules from the transcription of speech synthesis database and a prosody modeling method using the light version of ToBI for a Korean conversational style TTS. We focused on representing the characteristics of the conversational speech style and the experimental results show that our proposed methods are suitable for developing a Korean conversional style TTS.

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