Author:Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, E; Schlunz, Georg IDate:Nov 2009With the increasing prominence and maturity of corpus-based techniques for speech synthesis, the process of system development has in some ways been simplified considerably. However, the dependence on sufficient amounts of relevant speech ...Read more
Author:Schlunz, Georg IDate:Dec 2018We report on two sets of perceptual evaluations of our South African text-to-speech voices by language practitioners. In the first evaluation, we measure baseline quality in terms of how understandable and human-like the voices sound. We also ...Read more