Trainable Text-to-Speech Synthesis for European Portuguese
Almeida de Sa Barros Weiss, Maria Joao
This dissertation implements a hidden Markov models (HMM) based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system for European Portuguese (EP).The work describes the different speech synthesis approaches and overviews the use of HMMs in speech synthesis. The history of HMMs in speech synthesis is outlined, the main techniques used to apply HMMs to speech synthesis are explained and the speech parameter generation algorithm is described.The implemented TTS...