CZ2

release 0.2 - August 2000
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cz2 - A Czech male 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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cz2 is a diphone database for Czech, consisting of 1442 diphones, male
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                              
ts	cit             cit                              
tS	c^ást		část
d	du@l            důl                              
dz	podzim		podzim
dZ	dz^em		džem
d'	díl             díl                              
e	med             med                              
e:	mé              mé                              
f	foukat, domov   foukat, domov                              
g	grafika         grafika                              
h\	hu@l            hůl                              
i	idol            idol                              
i:	mír             mír                              
j	jak             jak                              
k	ku@r            kůr                              
l	lid             lid                              
m	mír             mír                              
n	nu@z^           nůž                              
n'	nic             nic                              
o	oko             oko                              
o:	óda             óda                              
p	pak             pak                              
r	rak             rak                              
r'	R^ek, tr^i      Řek, tři                              
s	sál             sál                              
S	s^ál            šál                              
t	to              to                              
t'	ti              ti                              
u	ucho            ucho                              
u:	ústa            ústa                              
v	val             val                              
x	chval           chval                              
z	zip             zip                              
Z	z^ák            žák                              

This database contains all possible diphones (square matrix).

Contact:
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Ales Horak <hales@fi.muni.cz>
Mikulas Pinos <pinos@fi.muni.cz>
Pavel Smrz <smrz@fi.muni.cz>
