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The Algorithms of Automation of the Process of Creating Acoustic Units Databases in the Polish Speech Synthesis

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Novel Developments in Uncertainty Representation and Processing

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This paper presents the new approach of creating the database of acoustic units in concatenative TTS synthesis. Nowadays databases like this are created manually, which is very time-consuming and takes at least several months of work. Creation such base in automatic way shortens this time to hours. One of the next problem in the concatenative synthesis is the problem of reproduction any text using a voice and a way of speaking of particular man. Presented algorithms allow to create the allophone units database of particular man after receiving a sample of his voice and as a result synthesizer speaking with exactly this voice.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland

    Janusz Rafałko

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  1. Inst. of Biophy. & Biomedical Eng., Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Krassimir T. Atanassov

  2. Division of Graduate Studies, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

    Oscar Castillo

  3. Sys Res Intit of Polish Acad of Science, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  4. Warsaw School of Information Technology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Maciej Krawczak

  5. Div of Gdu Stud,CalzTecn sn,Fra.TomAqu, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

    Patricia Melin

  6. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Asen Zlatarov University, Bourgas, Bulgaria

    Sotir Sotirov

  7. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, “Prof. Dr. Asen Zlatarov” University, Burgas, Bulgaria

    Evdokia Sotirova

  8. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

    Eulalia Szmidt

  9. Dept. of Tele. & Info. Processing, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Guy De Tré

  10. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Sławomir Zadrożny

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Rafałko, J. (2016). The Algorithms of Automation of the Process of Creating Acoustic Units Databases in the Polish Speech Synthesis. In: Atanassov, K., et al. Novel Developments in Uncertainty Representation and Processing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 401. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26211-6_32

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