Arabtalk, an implementation for Arabic TTS

• Main Authors: Abdulhalim, Yasser Hifny, Qurany, Shady, Hamid, Salah, Rashwan, Muhsen, Atiyya, Muhammad, Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb, Khallaaf, Galaal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: PJ6701 Modern Arabic dialects
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/2/FullText.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/22811/

This paper describes the ARABTALK® Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, developed at RDI , for Arabic language. ARABTALK® is a state-of-the-art corpus based concatenative TTS system. The system employs Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) statistical prosody based models for duration, energy, and glob...