Essays about: "Laura Rossetti"

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  1. 1. Improving an Italian TTS System : Voice Based Rules for Word Boundaries' Phenomena

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Laura Rossetti; [2017]
    Keywords : Natural language processing; Text-to-speech; NLP; TTS; unit selection; rules; Italian; computational linguistics; speech technology;

    Abstract : This thesis project aimed at improving a commercial Italian Unit Selection system by obtaining a higher agreement between the internal target representation produced by the text analysis component and the recordings in the speech database. Precisely this has been done by implementing new transformation rules that are applied on the input text during the text normalization and just after the grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) module. READ MORE