METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM USING A SPECIFIC DOMAIN SPEECH DATABASE

摘要

A system, method and computer readable medium that trains a text-to-speech synthesis system for use in speech synthesis is disclosed. The method may include recording audio files of one or more live voices speaking language used in a specific domain, the audio files being recorded using various prosodies, storing the recorded audio files in a speech database; and training a text-to-speech synthesis system using the speech database, wherein the text-to-speech synthesis system selects audio selects audio segments having a prosody based on at least one dialog state and one speech act.