Ogmios: The UPC Text-to-Speech synthesis system for Spoken Translation
Antonio Bonafonte, Pablo D. Ag, Peralta Esteban Javier · 2006
This paper presents the baseline text-to-speech system developed at UPC (Ogmios) plus our recent work on speech prosody generation and the procedures to create high quality language resources for speech synthesis. These contributions have been evaluated within the TC-STAR European project, which is focused on speech-to-speech translation. Several presented contributions have been developed in order to adapt the TTS component to the speech-to-speech translation framework. In this application, the input text is not writtenstyle text but transcriptions of talks. Moreover, we have to cope with errors coming from the speech recognition and speech translation engines. However, in speech-to-speech translation, the source speech can be used as a valuable source of information to generate the target prosody. The general framework and rst results are presented in the paper.