TEXT-TO-SPEECH METHOD AND SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR

摘要

A text-to-speech system (10) adapted to operate on text (Tl,...,Tn) in a first language including sections in a second language, includes: a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor (30) for converting said sections in said second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module (40; 40b) configured for mapping at least part of said phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module (50) adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including said sets of phonemes of said first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of said text, and to generate (50) a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes.