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title = "{F}on{D}at1: A Speech Synthesis Corpus for {N}orwegian",
author = "Amdal, Ingunn and
Svendsen, Torbj{\o}rn",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Gangemi, Aldo and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}{'}06)",
month = may,
year = "2006",
address = "Genoa, Italy",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/66_pdf.pdf",
abstract = "This paper describes the Norwegian speech database FonDat1 designedfor development and assessment of Norwegian unit selection speechsynthesis. The quality of unit selection speech synthesis systems depends highly on the database used. The database should contain sufficient phonemicand prosodic coverage. High quality unit selection synthesis alsorequires that the database is annotated with accurate information about identity and position of the units. Traditionally this involves much manual work, either by hand labelingthe entire database or by correcting automatic annotations. We are working on methods for a complete automation of the annotationprocess. To validate these methods a realistic unit selectionsynthesis database is needed. In addition to serve as a testbed for annotation tools and synthesisexperiments, the process of producing the database using automaticmethods is in itself an important result. FonDat1 contains studio recordings of approximately 2000 sentencesread by two professional speakers, one male and one female. 10{\%} ofthe database is manually annotated.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T FonDat1: A Speech Synthesis Corpus for Norwegian
%A Amdal, Ingunn
%A Svendsen, Torbjørn
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Gangemi, Aldo
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Tapias, Daniel
%S Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
%D 2006
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Genoa, Italy
%F amdal-svendsen-2006-fondat1
%X This paper describes the Norwegian speech database FonDat1 designedfor development and assessment of Norwegian unit selection speechsynthesis. The quality of unit selection speech synthesis systems depends highly on the database used. The database should contain sufficient phonemicand prosodic coverage. High quality unit selection synthesis alsorequires that the database is annotated with accurate information about identity and position of the units. Traditionally this involves much manual work, either by hand labelingthe entire database or by correcting automatic annotations. We are working on methods for a complete automation of the annotationprocess. To validate these methods a realistic unit selectionsynthesis database is needed. In addition to serve as a testbed for annotation tools and synthesisexperiments, the process of producing the database using automaticmethods is in itself an important result. FonDat1 contains studio recordings of approximately 2000 sentencesread by two professional speakers, one male and one female. 10% ofthe database is manually annotated.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/66_pdf.pdf
Markdown (Informal)
[FonDat1: A Speech Synthesis Corpus for Norwegian](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/66_pdf.pdf) (Amdal & Svendsen, LREC 2006)
ACL
- Ingunn Amdal and Torbjørn Svendsen. 2006. FonDat1: A Speech Synthesis Corpus for Norwegian. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).