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In view of many applications the synthesis of names (names of people, places, streets and trades) is of increasing importance, and in the near future it will be integrated in several services. However, most commercially available text-to-speech systems are unable to pronounce names correctly, since these systems were first of all developed for the synthesis of standard vocabulary. Thus, most German synthesis systems perform quite well for the segmentation of compound words into morphemes and for the letter-to-sound rules, but these algorithms are not necessarily appropriate for the pronunciation of German names. Furthermore, there are cases where names cannot be processed with the German morphological and phonetical rules when these names are derived from other languages. This paper will introduce a concept for the synthesis of person first names.
Bibliographic reference. Belhoula, Karim (1993): "A concept for the synthesis of names", In AST-1993, 167-170.