Evaluation of the Concatenative Turkish Text-to-Speech System

In this study, the framework of a concatenative text-to-speech system for Turkish is built and its evaluation techniques, namely MOS, DRT and CT have been considered. Naturalness and intelligibility of the Turkish TTS system is tested by MOS and CT-DRT respectively. Although the system uses simple techniques, it provides promising results for Turkish TTS, since the selected concatenative method is very well suited for Turkish language structure.