ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1997
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1997

Bell laboratories Russian text-to-speech system

Elena Pavlova, Yuri Pavlov, Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, Jan P. H. van Santen

This paper describes the Bell Labs Russian text-to-speech system, a concatenative system with extensive text-analysis capabilities. The construction of Russian-specific modules will be discussed, including the text-analysis module, the acoustic inventory, the duration module, and the intonation module.