Essays about: "TTS"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the word TTS.

1. 16. 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

3. 17. A Prototype Text Analyzer for Mandarin Chinese TTS system

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Chiao-ting Fang; [2017]
   Keywords : Chinese TTS; text analysis;

   Abstract : This project presents a prototype of a text analyzer for a rule-based Mandarin Chinese TTS voice, including components for text normalization, lexicons, phonetic analysis, prosodic analysis, and a phone set. Our implementation shows that despite the linguistic differences, it is feasible to build a Chinese voice with the TTS framework for European languages used at ReadSpeaker AB. READ MORE

4. 18. Achieving Increased Readability : Swedish Red Cross texts and their English Translations

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Pauline Backman; [2015]
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   Abstract : The importance of readable texts is gaining increased recognition, especially when writing for a diverse audience represented by people of various backgrounds and cultures. The present study compares the levels of readability in Swedish and English texts, from the Swedish Red Cross organisation. READ MORE

5. 19. Stepless fault injection for electrohydraulic actuator

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för reglerteknik

   Author : Erik Jönsson; [2015]
   Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : One of the cases for testing the BorgWarner GEN V clutch is to see if pump and motor malfunctions are detected by the software. Until now there have been a couple of fixed configurations testing clutches with different faults. READ MORE

6. 20. Improvement of an existing reading machine system "MagniLink TTS"

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för maskinteknik (MT)

   Author : Sha Wei; Li Junqiu; [2015]
   Keywords : product improvement; reading machine; text to speech; market feedback analysis; concepts designing; DFX; prototyping;

   Abstract : This degree project is about the improvement of an existing reading machine system "MagniLink TTS", which is provided by Low Vision International Sweden AB. According to the received feedbacks, some features together with the 3rd party components which have gone EOL (end of life) need to be updated. READ MORE