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, hc^ek), and u@ stands 
for u with a ring (krouz^ek) above

PHONEME	IN WORD         IN WORD ISO LATIN2                              
a	ar	        ar	                              
a:	pd             pd                              
b	brok            brok                              
c	cit             cit                              
d	du@l            dl                              
D	dl             dl                              
e	med             med                              
e:	m              m                              
f	foukat, domov   foukat, domov                              
g	grafika         grafika                              
h	hl             hl                              
i	idol            idol                              
i:	mr             mr                              
j	jak             jak                              
k	ku@r            kr                              
l	lid             lid                              
m	mr             mr                              
n	nu@            n                              
N	nic             nic                              
o	oko             oko                              
o:	da             da                              
p	pak             pak                              
r	rak             rak                              
r\	R^ek, tr^i      ek, ti                              
s	sl             sl                              
S	s^l            l                              
t	to              to                              
T	ti              ti                              
u	ucho            ucho                              
u:	sta            sta                              
v	val             val                              
x	chval           chval                              
z	zip             zip                              
Z	z^k            k                              

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>