Vietnam country report 2016: Updated activities on resources development for Vietnamese Speech and NLP

▪ Till now, there are 11 different corpora, including speech synthesis/recognition, corpora for machine translation, lexicon and other NLP Tools. ▪ New TTS Corpus 2016 — Adding 2 speakers from Broadcast News (1 man and 1 woman)to existed TTS corpus — Text selection: 6000 text selected sentences to cover around 5000 most frequent used Vietnamese Word — Develop new TTS — service oriented, easy to adapt with new voice. ▪ Develop web-based tool to record new voices for further speech corpus development.