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Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans
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| author | Rousseau, Francois |
| author2 | Mashao, Daniel |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5112 Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans Rousseau, Francois Mashao, Daniel Electrical Engineering Word processed copy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92). Afrikaans is the home language to approximately six million people in South Africa. The need for an Afrikaans TTS system comes with the growing interest in integrating speech technology in all eleven languages of the country. The ultimate goal here is to enable communication between man and machine using speech. This can be achieved with the use of speech technology by implementing multilingual technological systems that all the people in South Africa can understand and relate to. Understandability, flexibility, naturalness and pleasantnedd are the requirements of an advanced TTS system. The technique of concatentative speech synthesis has been the most successful in meeting all these requirements. The Festival speech synthesis system uses two popular concatenative techniques to design new TTS systems in different languages. The techniques are: diphone concatenative synthesis (DCS) and unit selection synthesis (USS). 2014-07-31T10:53:20Z 2014-07-31T10:53:20Z 2006 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5112 eng application/pdf Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering Rousseau, Francois Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans |
| title_full | Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans |
| title_fullStr | Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans |
| title_short | Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans |
| title_sort | design of an advanced text to speech system for afrikaans |
| topic | Electrical Engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5112 |
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