Introducing Nativization to Spanish TTS Systems

Tatyana Polyákova (1) , Antonio Bonafonte (1)

1 Signal Theory Department and Communications

► We propose a novel approach for foreign word nativization in TTS. ► Nativization is inferred by analogy in the phonemic and orthographic domains. ► Objective results showed significant improvements in comparison to our previous work. ► Perceptual evaluation showed that the proposed method is preferred by the listeners.

Mots clés: Nativization; Pronunciation by analogy; Multilingual TTS; Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion; Phoneme-to-phoneme conversion

Domaines: Linguistique

Tatyana Polyákova, Antonio Bonafonte. Introducing Nativization to Spanish TTS Systems. Speech Communication, 2011, ⟨10.1016/j.specom.2011.05.009⟩. ⟨hal-00769166⟩