The paper's bibtex citation is as follows:
@inproceedings{louw2019neuralspeech,
author = {Louw, Johannes A},
title = {Neural speech synthesis for resource-scarce languages},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research},
year = {2019},
editor = {Etienne Barnard and Marelie Davel},
pages = {103--116},
month = {December},
address = {Cape Town, South Africa}
}
Systems are as follows (as described in the paper)
System name
System description
DNN LPCNet
Stacked bottleneck feed-forward neural network based voice with LPCNet vocoder
DNN World
Stacked bottleneck feed-forward neural network based voice with World vocoder
HMM LPCNet
HTS HMM-based voice with LPCNet vocoder
HMM World
HTS HMM-based voice with World vocoder
Listening test stimuli
Utterance
Reference
DNN LPCNet
DNN World
HMM LPCNet
HMM World
"Telkens moet hy ook die gevolge van sy dade dra."
"Uitslaap in die veld en eie kamp met eie geriewe opstel."
"Die kom handig te pas om rigting aan te dui."
"Hulle tradisionele geloof en waardes is geskud."
"Jou finansiële raadgewer kan daarmee help."
"Alles vorm 'n eenheid met die eenvoud van die omgewing."
"Gangbaar, maar nie uitdaging waarna ernstige spelers soek nie."
"Ek kan dus nou ook u aandag daarop vestig."
"Selfs die geskubde vel oor die oog het behoue gebly."