@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1755, title = {Slovenian Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Speech User Interfaces}, author = {Jerneja Žganec Gros and Aleš Mihelič and Nikola Pavešić and Mario Žganec and Stanislav Gruden}, country = {}, institution = {}, abstract = {The paper presents the design concept of a unitselection text-to-speech synthesis system for the Slovenian language. Due to its modular and upgradable architecture, the system can be used in a variety of speech user interface applications, ranging from server carrier-grade voice portal applications, desktop user interfaces to specialized embedded devices. Since memory and processing power requirements are important factors for a possible implementation in embedded devices, lexica and speech corpora need to be reduced. We describe a simple and efficient implementation of a greedy subset selection algorithm that extracts a compact subset of high coverage text sentences. The experiment on a reference text corpus showed that the subset selection algorithm produced a compact sentence subset with a small redundancy. The adequacy of the spoken output was evaluated by several subjective tests as they are recommended by the International Telecommunication Union ITU.}, journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering}, volume = {1}, number = {11}, year = {2007}, pages = {1652 - 1656}, ee = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1755}, url = {https://publications.waset.org/vol/11}, bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/}, issn = {eISSN: 1307-6892}, publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology}, index = {Open Science Index 11, 2007}, }