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This paper gives an overview of the design concepts and implementation of a Hungarian microblog reading system. Speech synthesis of such special text requires some special components. First, an efficient diacritic reconstruction algorithm was applied. The accuracy of a former dictionary-based method was improved by machine learning to handle ambiguous cases properly. Second, an unlimited domain text-to-speech synthesizer was applied with extensions for emotional and spontaneous styles. Chat or blog texts often contain ”emoticons” which mark the emotional state of the user. Therefore, an expressive speech synthesis method was adapted to a corpus-based synthesizer. Four emotions were generated and evaluated in a listening test: neutral, happy, angry and sad. The results of the experiments showed that happy and sad emotions can be generated with this algorithm, with best accuracy for female voice.
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Zainkó, C., Csapó, T.G., Németh, G. (2010). Special Speech Synthesis for Social Network Websites. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15760-8_58
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