‘Speech Technology’ Archives
Research Resources at the Language Technologies Unit
Welsh basic Speech Recognition project - A small pilot project, funded by the WLB, developed a speech-controlled calculator as a way of demonstrating the potential of speech recognition Welsh. The software produced as a result of this project is a laboratory prototype, rather than a program that is ready for the market. All documentation, [...]
Owen – a new Welsh synthetic voice
The speech technology company Bitlips has released the most natural sounding Welsh-language synthetic voice yet, called 'Owen'. The voice is based on resources developed as part of the WISPR project undertaken by the Language Technologies Unit at Bangor University, but uses Hidden Markov Model techniques rather than the diphone method used by the [...]
ReadSpeaker delivers a new voice to Welsh-language websites
Readspeaker, a voice-enabling websites solution from VoiceCorp that enables visitors to listen to text rather than read it themselves have added a brand new voice to their available provision for Welsh-language websites. The new voice, Owen, developed by the speech technology company Bitlips (another SALT Cymru member) using resources created at [...]
Welsh Text-to-Speech Resources
In 2006, the Language Technologies Unit at Bangor University produced a synthetic text-to-speech voice for Welsh as part of the WISPR project. This basic version of the voice was released under a free BSD-style license, along with the associated development resources. This license was chosen deliberately to allow commercial companies to develop [...]
