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title = "Corpus and Voices for {C}atalan Speech Synthesis",
author = "Bonafonte, Antonio and
Adell, Jordi and
Esquerra, Ignasi and
Gallego, Silvia and
Moreno, Asunci{\'o}n and
P{\'e}rez, Javier",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'08)",
month = may,
year = "2008",
address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/835_paper.pdf",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis
%A Bonafonte, Antonio
%A Adell, Jordi
%A Esquerra, Ignasi
%A Gallego, Silvia
%A Moreno, Asunción
%A Pérez, Javier
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Tapias, Daniel
%S Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08)
%D 2008
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Marrakech, Morocco
%F bonafonte-etal-2008-corpus
%X In this paper we describe the design and production of Catalan database for building synthetic voices. Two speakers, with 10 hours per speaker, have recorded 10 hours of speech. The speaker selection and the corpus design aim to provide resources for high quality synthesis. The resources have been used to build voices for the Festival TTS. Both the original recordings and the Festival databases are freely available for research and for commertial use.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/835_paper.pdf
Markdown (Informal)
[Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/835_paper.pdf) (Bonafonte et al., LREC 2008)
ACL
- Antonio Bonafonte, Jordi Adell, Ignasi Esquerra, Silvia Gallego, Asunción Moreno, and Javier Pérez. 2008. Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).