TTTS: Turkish text-to-speech system
Zeliha Görmez, Zeynep Orhan · Annual Conference on Computers · 2008
This paper describes the TTTS (Turkish Text-To-Speech) synthesis system, developed at Fatih University for Turkish language. TTTS is a concatenative TTS system aiming to advance the process of developing natural and human sounding Turkish voices. The resulting system can be implemented by concatenating pieces of recorded speech that are stored in a database. Systems differ in the size of the stored speech units effecting the output range, the quality and the clarity. The letters of the Turkish alphabet and the syllables that consist of two letters at most are used as the smallest phonemes in the context of this study. The syllables that have more than two letters are derived from these smallest units. The results are evaluated by using the Degradation Mean Opinion Score (DMOS) method.