15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
In this paper we describe a general scheme for internationalization of our talking head, Baldi, to speak other languages. We describe the modular structure of the auditory/visual synthesis software. As an example, we have created a synthetic Arabic talker, which is evaluated using a noisy word recognition task comparing this talker with a natural one.
Bibliographic reference. Ouni, Slim / Massaro, Dominic W. / Cohen, Michael M. / Young, Karl / Jesse, Alexandra (2003): "Internationalization of a talking head", In ICPhS-15, 2569-2572.