CZ1

release 0.1 - October 1999
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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
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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:
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Ales Horak <hales@fi.muni.cz>
Mikulas Pinos <pinos@fi.muni.cz>
Pavel Smrz <smrz@fi.muni.cz>