GiellaLT

GiellaLT provides an infrastructure for rule-based language technology aimed at minority and indigenous languages, and streamlines building anything from keyboards to speech technology. Read more about Why. See also How to get started and our Privacy document.

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Developing TTS

This pages gives an overview of production of text-to-speech (TTS) programs for minority languages. Programs built so far can be found at the Borealium resource page.

Phases in the production process

  1. Collecting and preparing text to be used (several months)
  2. Recording tehe texts (one week of studio time)
  3. Text postprocessing (months)
  4. Splitting the recordings and text transcripts to approx. sentence-long individual files
  5. Procedures for normalisation of input text
  6. Building a voice
  7. Combining parts and distribution

Resources

Links to projects for various languages