Notes for autumn plan, tts

Topics

• Read in on everything forgotten since last time (Biret Ánne, Trond)
• Read in on TTS in general (Biret Ánne, Trond)
• Setup and make documentation for the project (help from Børre)

Background reading

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
• Chapter 8 in Jurafsky/Martin
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System
• http://festvox.org/

Linguistics

We want to use our syntactical analyser as input for tts. In order to do that, it must be enriched.

• Improving the Sámi parser
• Adding new features
  • Semantic roles
  • Focus particles
  • Given - new information
• Eventually make a leaner and thereby faster tts-dis (skipping what is not needed for tts.

Startup meeting with Helsinki

Forthcoming…

Plans for recording

• Find a speaker (NRK commentator?), perhaps several
• Suggest cooperation with NRK Sami Radio?
  • Meaning they give access to studio and tapes, perhaps voice