TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS FOR DUTCH: DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT KNOWLEDGE SOURCES

Abstract

This paper deals with the development of a text-to-speech system for Dutch. Special attention is paid to a highly flexible development tool called DEPES. This tool provides both a powerful knowledge representation language which is very well suited for text-to-speech problems, and a compiler program which accepts (linguistic) grammars written in this language. The DEPES software tool was used successfully to create and implement many knowledge sources in our text-to-speech system.