In this paper, we try to describe the issues to be considered in developing a concatenative speech synthesizer for Amharic language. The complexity of the syllable structure of the language, the phonetic nature of the language and the result of the perceptual test of the synthesizer will be discussed. Comments and recommendations for further research are included.
Cite as: Mariam, S.H., Kishore, S.P., Black, A.W., Kumar, R., Sangal, R. (2004) Unit selection voice for Amharic using Festvox. Proc. 5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 5), 103-108
@inproceedings{mariam04_ssw,
author={Sebsibe H. Mariam and S. P. Kishore and Alan W. Black and Rohit Kumar and Rajeev Sangal},
title={{Unit selection voice for Amharic using Festvox}},
year=2004,
booktitle={Proc. 5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 5)},
pages={103--108}
}