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Building high quality databases for minority languages such as Galician
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010
Year (definitive publication)
2010
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English
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Abstract
This paper describes the result of a joint R&D project between Microsoft Portugal and the Signal Theory Group of the University of Vigo (Spain), where a set of language resources was developed with application to Text-to-Speech synthesis. First, a large Corpus of 10000 Galician sentences was designed and recorded by a professional female speaker. Second, a lexicon with phonetic and grammatical information of over 90000 entries was collected and reviewed manually by a linguist expert. And finally, these resources were used for a MOS (Mean Opinion Score) perceptual test to compare two state-of-the-art speech synthesizers of both groups, the one from Microsoft based on HMM, and the one from the University of Vigo based on unit selection.
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Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering - Engineering and Technology
- Languages and Literature - Humanities
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| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| TEC2009-14094-C04-04 | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad |
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