This paper first introduces a newly-recorded high quality Romanian speech corpus
designed for speech synthesis, called “RSS”, along with Romanian front-end text processing …

Speech synthesis is one of the most language-dependent domains of speech technology. In
particular, the natural language processing stage of a text-to-speech (TTS) system contains …

Preprocessing the input text is an essential component in a Natural Language Processing
(NLP) system. We are discussing the relevance of the preprocessors in the context of …

We present in this article our approach for building a text-to-speech system for Romanian.
Main stages of this work were: voice signal analysis, region segmentation, construction of …

This paper introduces a series of results and experiments used in the development of a
Romanian text-to-speech system, focusing on text statistics. We investigate the presence of …

We present in this article our experience in building a text-to-speech system for Romanian
through concatenation method. Main stages of this work were following: voice signal …

This paper presents the design of the text analysis component of a TTS system for the
Romanian language. Our text analysis is performed in two steps: document structure …

This article presents several steps that we have accomplished in order to construct a
syllablebased TTS system for Romanian. These steps are: projecting a text analysis method …

This paper addresses issues regarding the interdependence between sentence boundary
detection (SBD), proper name detection (PND) and acronym/abbreviation detection (ABD) …

This article presents a voice synthesis application based on syllable concatenation. The
system is dedicated for Romanian language, so it was need to work on special rules to …