ISCA Archive - Text-to-speech synthesis in the French electronic mail environment (original) (raw)

Text-to-speech synthesis in the French electronic mail environment

Christel Sorin, Raymond Descout, Christian Benoît, Françoise Emerard, C. Fluhr, Danielle Larreur, J. L. Le Saint-Milon, Eric Moulines, R. Peron

At the present time, one of the most popular application of the text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis technique in the telecommunication area is the "text-to-voice" service allowing E-mail users to access their mailbox through an ordinary touch-tone telephone for receiving a voice output of their messages (BERNEY, 1985). We present here the specific problems encountered in French, and the adopted solutions for adapting the CNET's synthesis system to this specific application.