A Guide to Building a Diphone Speech Synthesis System for Kalaallisut
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2017
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Abstract
Diphone speech synthesis is the process of creating an artificial voice capable of converting
text input to vocalized speech by means of concatenating diphones. While compared to
unit selection. the most popular modem method of speech synthesis. diphone synthesis suffers
from naturalness problems. it has the benefit of requiring fewer recorded segments and thus
fewer resources and less memory. In this thesis I will present a guide to constructing a diphone
speech synthesis system for Kalaallisut. the national language of Greenland. I will also discuss
the importance of these systems. and the need for resources that will allow members of
marginalized speech communities to construct such tools themselves.