Institute for Natural Language Processing

Speech Synthesis at the IMS

Speech Synthesis at the IMS

TTS demo

We provide two demo pages. On the first one you can synthesize any given text online. The second is a speaking metro information system for the region of Stuttgart.

Project description

The speech synthesis activities at the IMS (Experimental Phonetics) concentrates on various linguistic and application oriented aspects of speech synthesis. Our goal is to achieve naturally sounding and linguistically motivated speech synthesis.
The speech synthesis system developed at the IMS is the IMSGermanFestival system (download IMS German Festival). It is based on the original Festival speech synthesis framework developed at CSTR, University of Edinburgh. The current voice of our system uses diphones taken from the MBROLA project.

Members of the IMS speech synthesis group

• Grzegorz Dogil
• Bernd Möbius
• Antje Schweitzer

Former members of the IMS speech synthesis groups

• Martin Barbisch
• Norbert Braunschweiler (now with Toshiba, UK)
• Martin Haase
• Tanja Klankert
• Gregor Möhler (now with IBM, Böblingen)
• Edmilson Morais da Silva (now with Univ. Campinas, Brazil)
• Bettina Säuberlich

Download

You can download a version of our German Festival synthesis system.

Interesting local links

• A collection of text-to-speech systems with sound examples for numerous languages.
• Teaching speech synthesis. A site of the ESCA Special Interest Group in speech synthesis (SynSIG) dedicated to everything useful for teaching this subject (organisations - courses - software - tutorials - links - images).
• Linguistics & Phonetics Worldwide.

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