Louw, Johannes A2012-01-272012-01-272008-11Louw, JA. 2008. Speect: a multilingual text-to-speech system. Nineteenth Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA 2008), Cape Town, South Africa, 27-28 November 20089780799223507http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5542Nineteenth Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA 2008), Cape Town, South Africa, 27-28 November 2008This paper introduces a new multilingual text-to-speech system, which we call Speect (Speech synthesis with extensible architecture), aiming to address the shortcomings of using Festival as a research sytem and Flite as a deployment system in a multilingual development environment. Speect is implemented in C with a modular object oriented approach and a plugin architecture, aiming to separate the linguistic and acoustic dependencies from the run-time environment. A scripting language interface is provided for research and rapid development of new languages and voices. This paper discusses the motivation for a new text-to-speech system as well as the design architecture and implementation of the system. We also discuss what is still required in the development to make the new system a viable alternative to the Festical-Flite tool-chain.enSpeect(Speech synthesis with extensible architectureText-to-speech technologiesPattern recognitionPRASA 2008Conference PresentationLouw, J. A. (2008). Speect: a multilingual text-to-speech system. PRASA 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5542Louw, Johannes A. "Speect: a multilingual text-to-speech system." (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5542Louw JA, Speect: a multilingual text-to-speech system; PRASA 2008; 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5542 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Louw, Johannes A AB - This paper introduces a new multilingual text-to-speech system, which we call Speect (Speech synthesis with extensible architecture), aiming to address the shortcomings of using Festival as a research sytem and Flite as a deployment system in a multilingual development environment. Speect is implemented in C with a modular object oriented approach and a plugin architecture, aiming to separate the linguistic and acoustic dependencies from the run-time environment. A scripting language interface is provided for research and rapid development of new languages and voices. This paper discusses the motivation for a new text-to-speech system as well as the design architecture and implementation of the system. We also discuss what is still required in the development to make the new system a viable alternative to the Festical-Flite tool-chain. DA - 2008-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Speect KW - (Speech synthesis with extensible architecture KW - Text-to-speech technologies KW - Pattern recognition KW - PRASA 2008 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2008 SM - 9780799223507 T1 - Speect: a multilingual text-to-speech system TI - Speect: a multilingual text-to-speech system UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5542 ER -