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Efficient Diphone Database Creation For MBROLA - DocPlayer
Efficient Diphone Database Creation For MBROLA - DocPlayer
for MBROLA,
a multilingual speech synthesiser
Jolanta Bachan
Institute of Linguistics
Adam Mickiewicz University
Poznań
OWD 2010
Wisła-Kopydło, Poland
Why MBROLA?
● useful for testing ● Recently used for:
speech models in ● expressive speech
linguistic work ● dialogue synthesis
● easy manipulation of ● voice quality
duration and pitch ● underresourced
values languages
● easy to create new ● large speech corpora
synthetic voices evaluation (ACCS)
Ph.D. thesis context
● to model different speech styles which will align
with the speaker in a consultation situation
● in a stress situation
● based on the phonetic and linguistic characteristics
of the speaker’s speech
● to design and build a speech synthesis
component and a style selection module for an
adaptive dialogue system
Jolanta Bachan
Mbrolation
The Mbrolator, is a software suite for MBROLA
voice creation
● database file in the SEG format
● diphone filename ● diphone start & end
● diphone label ● diphone subsplitting
● restrictions put on the diphone files are:
● 16000Hz sampling rate
● no longer than 10000 samples
● context of 800 samples on the left and the right sides
2010-10-24 Efficient diphone database creation for 8
MBROLA
Jolanta Bachan
Mbrolation