Objective evaluation of grapheme to phoneme conversion for text-to-speech synthesis in French
✍ Scribed by F Yvon; P Boula de Mareüil; C d»Alessandro; V Aubergé; M Bagein; G Bailly; F Béchet; S Foukia; J -F Goldman; E Keller; D O»Shaughnessy; V Pagel; F Sannier; J Véronis; B Zellner
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 128 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-2308
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✦ Synopsis
This paper reports on a cooperative international evaluation of grapheme-to-phoneme (GP) conversion for text-to-speech synthesis in French. Test methodology and test corpora are described. The results for eight systems are provided and analysed in some detail. The contribution of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it gives an accurate picture of the state-of-the-art in the domain of GP conversion for French, and points out the problems still to be solved. On the other hand, much room is devoted to a discussion of methodological issues for this task. We hope this could help future evaluations of similar systems in other languages.