Techniques for high quality Arabic speech synthesis

Moustafa Elshafei, Husni Al-Muhtaseb*, Mansour Al-Ghamdi

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Abstract

The paper proposes a diphone/sub-syllable method for Arabic Text-to-Speech (ATTS) systems. The proposed approach exploits the particular syllabic structure of the Arabic words. For good quality, the boundaries of the speech segments are chosen to occur only at the sustained portion of vowels. The speech segments consists of consonants-half vowels, half vowel-consonants, half vowels, middle portion of vowels, and suffix consonants. The minimum set consists of about 310 segments for classical Arabic. copy; 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-267
Number of pages13
JournalInformation Sciences
Volume140
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2002

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work has been supported by KACST under contract number # AT-18-12. The authors would like to acknowledge also the support of KFUPM.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Software
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Artificial Intelligence

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