Building a representative audio base of syllables for Romanian language

Abstract

The aim of this work is to provide some insights regarding the effort of building a representative and wide coverage audio base of syllables for Romanian. The audio base comprises audio recordings of syllables extracted from the following types of syllable embedding: isolated-syllable, isolated-word and continuous speech. The list of syllables has been computed over the syllabified form of single-word inflected forms. The inflected forms were generated using a general rule-based system for normal and phonetic inflection having at its core the GRAALAN (GRAmmar Abstract LANguage) metalanguage (designed for linguistic knowledge description). In addition, the word-position of a syllable was accounted for when planning the audio recordings.