A rule-based approach to build a text-to-speech system for Romanian

We present in this article our approach for building a text-to-speech system for Romanian. Main stages of this work were: voice signal analysis, region segmentation, construction of acoustic database, text analysis, unit and prosody detection, unit matching, concatenation and speech synthesis. In our approach we consider word syllables as basic units and stress indicating intrasegmental prosody. A special characteristic of current approach is rule-based processing of both speech signal analyse and text analyse stages.