Preliminaries to a Romanian speech database
Marian Boldea, A. Doroga, T. Dumitrescu, M. Pescaru · 2002
The paper presents the design and early recording stages of a Romanian speech database to be used for development of both speech recognition and speech synthesis systems. The recognition part is built around a core patterned after the EUROM 1 design, so that it has good compatibility, and includes both read and semispontaneous speech. The synthesis part consists of a read speech corpus from which diphones are to be extracted to build concatenation based TTS systems, and read material to serve as benchmark data for the administration of a Romanian version of the Modified Rhyme Test (A.S. House et al., 1965).