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In this paper, four speech corpora collected in the Speech Lab of NCTU in recent years are discussed. They include a Mandarin tree-bank speech corpus, a Min-Nan speech corpus, a Hakka speech corpus, and a Chinese-English mixed speech corpus. Currently, they are used separately to develop a corpus-based Mandarin TTS system, a Min-Nan TTS system, a Hakka TTS system, and a Chinese-English bilingual TTS system. These systems will be integrated in the future to construct a multilingual TTS system covering the four primary languages used in Taiwan.
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Hsiao, HC., Yu, HM., Wang, YR., Chen, SH. (2006). Multilingual Speech Corpora for TTS System Development. In: Huo, Q., Ma, B., Chng, ES., Li, H. (eds) Chinese Spoken Language Processing. ISCSLP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4274. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11939993_75
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