Polyglot Voice Design for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
Kurtic, Emina
Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are increasingly faced with mixed language input. Most TTS systems allow building synthetic voices for different languages, but each voice \"speaks\" only one language at a time. For synthesizing mixed language input polyglot voices are needed that are able to switch between languages.
An inherent problem of unit selection speech synthesis is that its quality depends on the contents of the unit database. Concatena...