@InProceedings{Hoffmann2004_519,
author = {Rüdiger Hoffmann and Ursula Hirschfeld and Oliver Jokisch and Lutz C. Anders},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2004},
title = {LexDRESS - Speech Synthesis for a Speaking Pronunciation Dictionary - First Results},
year = {2004},
editor = {Klaus Fellbaum},
month = mar,
pages = {183--190},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {The Institute of Speech Sciences and Phonetics at Halle University is
developing a new dictionary of German pronunciation which will also incorporate a
“talking dictionary”. This development is done in co-operation with the Laboratory of
Acoustics and Speech Communication at Dresden University of Technology. A
preliminary study published at ICPhS 2003 [1] showed that the quality of a standard
TTS system (in this case the Dresden Speech Synthesis System DRESS) is not
sufficient for the purpose of teaching the standard pronunciation. Therefore, the
synthesis system lexDRESS was developed based on DRESS but showing features
which are specifically important for a word synthesis from a close phonetic
transcription. Using this close transcription requires a speech inventory which
considers a large amount of allophonic sounds. A first version of the synthesis system as well as the inventory is available now. It is the aim of this paper to give an overview on lexDRESS. Furthermore, the results of a first evaluation are described
here. A set of test words has been evaluated by experts and laypersons with regard to
adherence and closeness to norms of pronunciation.},
isbn = {978-3-937672-65-6},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Sprachsynthese},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2004_183_190.pdf},
}