Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans

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dc.contributor.advisorMashao, Danielen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRousseau, Francoisen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T10:53:20Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T10:53:20Z
dc.date.issued2006en_ZA
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dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).
dc.description.abstractAfrikaans is the home language to approximately six million people in South Africa. The need for an Afrikaans TTS system comes with the growing interest in integrating speech technology in all eleven languages of the country. The ultimate goal here is to enable communication between man and machine using speech. This can be achieved with the use of speech technology by implementing multilingual technological systems that all the people in South Africa can understand and relate to. Understandability, flexibility, naturalness and pleasantnedd are the requirements of an advanced TTS system. The technique of concatentative speech synthesis has been the most successful in meeting all these requirements. The Festival speech synthesis system uses two popular concatenative techniques to design new TTS systems in different languages. The techniques are: diphone concatenative synthesis (DCS) and unit selection synthesis (USS).en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationRousseau, F. (2006). <i>Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Department of Electrical Engineering. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5112en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRousseau, Francois. <i>"Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Department of Electrical Engineering, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5112en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRousseau, F. 2006. Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Rousseau, Francois AB - Afrikaans is the home language to approximately six million people in South Africa. The need for an Afrikaans TTS system comes with the growing interest in integrating speech technology in all eleven languages of the country. The ultimate goal here is to enable communication between man and machine using speech. This can be achieved with the use of speech technology by implementing multilingual technological systems that all the people in South Africa can understand and relate to. Understandability, flexibility, naturalness and pleasantnedd are the requirements of an advanced TTS system. The technique of concatentative speech synthesis has been the most successful in meeting all these requirements. The Festival speech synthesis system uses two popular concatenative techniques to design new TTS systems in different languages. The techniques are: diphone concatenative synthesis (DCS) and unit selection synthesis (USS). DA - 2006 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2006 T1 - Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans TI - Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5112 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/5112
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRousseau F. Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Department of Electrical Engineering, 2006 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5112en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Electrical Engineeringen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherElectrical Engineeringen_ZA
dc.titleDesign of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaansen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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