Abstract
Many foreigners visit and stay in Japan. Natural disasters such as earthquake, flood and volcano often occur in Japan. When a disaster occurs, the authority needs to give announcement to people including non-Japanese. Easy Japanese (EJ) is focused on conveying information to non-Japanese. EJ is a kind of Japanese designed to be easily understood by non-Japanese. We implemented an Easy Japanese writing support software “YANSIS” by Java. YANSIS runs any platform where Java runs. Under a disastrous condition, not only text information but also speech announcement is required. Thus we implemented a text-to-speech (TTS) function to YANSIS. To integrate the text-to-speech function with YANSIS, we implemented the Japanese TTS system Open JTalk with Java. In this paper, we describe our software YANSIS, and compare the quality of the synthesized speech by Open JTalk and our implemented TTS software.
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Nagano, T., Prafianto, H., Nose, T., Ito, A. (2017). Development of an Easy Japanese Writing Support System with Text-to-Speech Function. In: Pan, JS., Tsai, PW., Huang, HC. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 64. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50212-0_27
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