Recording and annotation of speech corpus for Czech unit selection speech synthesis

  • Authors:
  • Jindřich Matoušek;Jan Romportl

  • Affiliations:
  • University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Cybernetics, Plzeň, Czech Republic;SpeechTech, Plzen, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • TSD'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Text, speech and dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

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.