Lithuanian Speech Corpus Liepa for Development of Human-Computer Interfaces Working in Voice Recognition and Synthesis Mode

Laurinčiukaitė, Sigita; Telksnys, Laimutis; Kasparaitis, Pijus; Kliukienė, Regina; Paukštytė, Vilma

doi:10.15388/Informatica.2018.177

Informatica

Lithuanian Speech Corpus Liepa for Development of Human-Computer Interfaces Working in Voice Recognition and Synthesis Mode

Volume 29, Issue 3 (2018), pp. 487–498

Sigita Laurinčiukaitė Laimutis Telksnys Pijus Kasparaitis Regina Kliukienė Vilma Paukštytė

https://doi.org/10.15388/Informatica.2018.177

Pub. online: 1 January 2018 Type: Research Article

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1 May 2017

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1 March 2018

Published
1 January 2018

Abstract

The problem of speech corpus for design of human-computer interfaces working in voice recognition and synthesis mode is investigated. Specific requirements of speech corpus for speech recognizers and synthesizers were accented. It has been discussed that in order to develop above mentioned speech corpus, it has to consist of two parts. One part of speech corpus should be presented for the needs of Lithuanian text-to-speech synthesizers, another part of speech corpus – for the needs of Lithuanian speech recognition engines. It has been determined that the part of speech corpus designed for speech recognition engines has to ensure the availability to present language specificity by the use of different sets of phonemes. According to the research results, the speech corpus Liepa, which consists of two parts, was developed. This speech corpus opens possibilities for cost-effective and flexible development of human-computer interfaces working in voice recognition and synthesis mode.

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Biographies

Laurinčiukaitė Sigita

sigita.lau@gmail.com

S. Laurinčiukaitė received her PhD degree from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. From 2000 to 2008 she worked at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. Currently she is working with development of speech corpora. Her research field is HMM based methods for Lithuanian speech recognition, development of speech corpora.

Telksnys Laimutis

laimutis.telksnys@mii.vu.lt

L. Telksnys, professor, doctor habilitatis in informatics, doctor honoris causa of the Kaunas University of Technology, member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, senior research fellow of Recognition Processes Department at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is the author of an original theory of detecting changes in random processes, investigator and developer of a computerized system for statistical analysis and recognition of random signals. His current research interests are in analysis and recognition of random processes, cardiovascular signals and speech processing.

Kasparaitis Pijus

pkasparaitis@yahoo.com

P. Kasparaitis graduated from Vilnius University (Faculty of Mathematics) in 1991. He became a PhD student at Vilnius University in 1991. In 2001 he defended his PhD thesis. Presently he is an associate professor at Vilnius University. Current research includes text-to-speech synthesis and other areas of computer linguistics.

Kliukienė Regina

R. Kliukienė received her PhD degree from Vilnius University. She worked at Vilnius University, the Faculty of Philology. She supervised the construction of the Lithuanian speech corpus Liepa.

Paukštytė Vilma

vilma.paukstyte@gmail.com

V. Paukštytė received her master’s degree in Lithuanian linguistics from the Vilnius University in 2012. She worked with the Lithuanian speech corpus Liepa.

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