Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Unit Selection Speech Synthesis

The paper gives a brief summarisation of preparation and recording of a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for Czech unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. Special attention is paid to the process of two-phase orthographic annotations of recorded sentences with regard to their coherence. Key words: speech corpus; speech synthesis; unit selection; sentence selection; speech recording; annotation

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: TSD
• Authors: Jindrich Matousek, Jan Romportl
• Keywords: Rich Speech Corpus, Signal Processing, Speech Corpus, TSD 2007, Unit Selection