Diphone spanish text-to-speech synthesizer

Abstract

The paper deals with development of speech synthesizer for Spanish language within a complex modular speech synthesis system with a multilingual support. The whole concept of the system architecture is described in the paper, together with a method for the quality improvement of a synthesized speech. A short comparison of Slovak and Spanish languages is discussed from phonetic transcription point of view. The quality of the final synthesized speech based on the new Spanish synthesizer has also been tested and evaluated.