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The MBROLA project: towards a set of high quality speech synthesizers free of use for non commercial purposes
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The aim of the MBROLA project, initiated by the Faculte Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium), is to obtain a set of speech synthesizers for as many voices, languages and dialects as possible, free of use for non-commercial and non-military applications. The ultimate goal is to boost academic research on speech synthesis, and particularly on prosody generation, known as one of the biggest challenges taken up by text-to-speech synthesizers for the years to come. Central to the MBROLA project is MBROLA 2.00, a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones. Executable files of this synthesizer have been made freely available for many computers/operating systems, as well as a first diphone database for a French male voice. We describe the terms of participation to the project, as a user, as an associated developer, or as a database provider.
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- Dutoit, T., Pagel, V., Pierret, N., Bataille, F., & van der Vrecken, O.
- Venue
- Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96
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- IEEE
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- 2002-12-24
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- 3
- Pages
- 1393-1396
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- W2130890537
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- 15.50
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- Language
- en
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