INFORMATICA Informatica 1822-8844 0868-4952 0868-4952 Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lithuania INFO583 10.15388/Informatica.2005.093 Research Article Diphone Databases for Lithuanian Text-to-Speech Synthesis Kasparaitis Pijus pkasparaitis@yahoo.com Department of Computer Science II, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, Naugarduko 24, 03225 Vilnius, Lithuania 2005 16 2 193 202 1 5 2004 © 2005 Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius 2005 Open access article under the CC BY license.

One of the components of the text-to-speech synthesis system is the database of sounds. Two Lithuanian diphone databases in the MBROLA format are presented in this paper. The list of phonemes and the list of diphones necessary for Lithuanian text-to-speech synthesis are described. The problem of phoneme combinations that are not used in the Lithuanian language is dealt with in the work. Also, the article is concerned with transcribing a Lithuanian text.

 text-to-speech synthesis diphone