Improving Naturalness and Intelligibility of Text-to-Speech Systems
The latest generation of speech synthesis techniques has recently increased the quality of Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems as regarding the naturalness and the intelligibility of the voice. Such systems are often referred in the literature as corpus-based TTS. The unit-selection method is one of the technologies for corpus-based TTS that accumulates human speech (natural speech) in a database of reusable units, and generates synthesized speech by properly concatenating the units.
