DATA-BASE RULE-SYSTEM FOR THE MULTIVOX TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERTER APPLICATION FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE

Authors

  • G. Gordos
  • M. A. Sabah
  • G. Olaszy

Abstract

The MULTIVOX-Multilingual text-to-speech converter system is adapted to Modern Standard Arabic. In this system, Arabic speech is generated from the concatenation of a set of acoustic building units (ABUs). A 3-dimensional data-base rule-system for the synthesis of unlimited vocabulary Arabic text is organized to concatenate the appropri- ate ABUs for all possible phone-code pairs that may exist in the input text. The main functions of the MULTIVOX are explained. Illustrative examples are given to show the conversion of Arabic graphemes into phone-codes and the use of the data-base rule-system in the concatenation of the ABUs. Hearing tests have been carried out to test the quality of the synthesized speech.

Keywords:

speech synthesis as a rule, data-base rule-systems, text-to-speech systems, Arabic phonetics

How to Cite

Gordos, G., Sabah, M. A., Olaszy, G. “DATA-BASE RULE-SYSTEM FOR THE MULTIVOX TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERTER APPLICATION FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE ”, Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering, 36(2), pp. 93–105, 1992.

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 2 (1992)

Section

Articles