CZ1 release 0.1 - October 1999 __________________________ cz1 - A Czech female voice for the MBROLA synthesiser Created at the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic Description of the database --------------------------- cz1 is a diphone database for Czech, consisting of 639 diphones, female voice. The following phoneme symbols are assumed in our diphone sets. caron (hacek, wedge) In the representation of Czech orthography shown below c^, e^, n^, r^, s^, z^ stand for c, e, n, r, s, z with a wedge accent (caron, hác^ek), and u@ stands for u with a ring (krouz^ek) above PHONEME IN WORD IN WORD ISO LATIN2 a ar ar a: pád pád b brok brok c cit cit d du@l dùl D díl díl e med med e: mé mé f foukat, domov foukat, domov g grafika grafika h hùl hùl i idol idol i: mír mír j jak jak k ku@r kùr l lid lid m mír mír n nu@¾ nù¾ N nic nic o oko oko o: óda óda p pak pak r rak rak r\ R^ek, tr^i Øek, tøi s sál sál S s^ál ¹ál t to to T ti ti u ucho ucho u: ústa ústa v val val x chval chval z zip zip Z z^ák ¾ák Some diphones are lacking (about half of total amount, but in most cases they are not very frequent). This database is now in progress, we are going to prepare new database with all diphones spoken by male voice. Contact: -------- Ales Horak Mikulas Pinos Pavel Smrz