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Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
(ICSLP 2000)
Beijing, China
October 16-20, 2000 |
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Automatic Modeling and Implementation of Intonation for the Arabic Language in TTS Systems
Safa Nasser Eldin (1), Hanna Abdel Nour (2), Rajouani Abdenbi (3)
(1) Equipe Signal et Image, ENSERB
Talence, France
(2) Al-Quds University, Electronic Engineering Department,
Jerusalem, Palestine
(3) LESSA, Rabat, Morocco
This paper proposes a set of rules for the automatic generation
of F0 contours for modern standard Arabic (MSA) affirmative
and interrogative sentences. The objective is to finalize a model
for the automatic processing of the intonative pattern in different
TTS systems (e.g. synthesis by formants using Klatt synthesizer
and synthesis by diphones, using a synthesizer based on PSOLA
algorithm). The approach is based on the perceptive description
of the Arabic intonation by extracting the pertinent variation of
the intonative curve using a suitable stylization.
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Bibliographic reference.
Eldin, Safa Nasser / Nour, Hanna Abdel / Abdenbi, Rajouani (2000):
"Automatic modeling and implementation of intonation for the arabic language in TTS systems",
In ICSLP-2000, vol.1, 597-600.