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Implementing a Rule-Based Speech Synthesizer on a Mobile Platform

Tuomo Saarni, Jyri Paakkulainen, Tuomas Mäkilä, Jussi Hakokari, Olli Aaltonen, Jouni Isoaho, Tapio Salakoski, Implementing a Rule-Based Speech Synthesizer on a Mobile Platform. In: Advances in Natural Language Processing, 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006 Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4139/2006, 349–355, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006.

Abstract:

This paper describes the structure of a Finnish speech synthesis system
developed at the University of Turku and evaluates the preliminary results
of its implementation and performance on a platform with limited computing
power. A rule-based approach was selected due to its high adaptability, low
memory and computational capacity requirements. The speech synthesis system
is written in Java™ MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1. The synthesis is implemented on
Nokia 6680 mobile device as a 65 kilobyte MIDlet. The system produces artificial speech at the sampling rate of 16 kHz. The results show that for a second of synthesized speech it takes 2.66 seconds for the system to produce it. Although the implementation was successful, improvements are needed to achieve a more acceptable level of time consumption.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpSaPaMaHaAaIsSa06a,
  title = {Implementing a Rule-Based Speech Synthesizer on a Mobile Platform},
  booktitle = {Advances in Natural Language Processing, 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006 Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006 Proceedings},
  author = {Saarni, Tuomo and Paakkulainen, Jyri and Mäkilä, Tuomas and Hakokari, Jussi and Aaltonen, Olli and Isoaho, Jouni and Salakoski, Tapio},
  volume = {4139/2006},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
  pages = {349–355},
  year = {2006},
}

Belongs to TUCS Research Unit(s): Turku BioNLP Group, Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESLAB), Software Construction Laboratorium

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