CZ2

release 0.2 - August 2000
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cz2 - A Czech male voice for the MBROLA synthesiser

Created at the 
Natural Language Processing Laboratory at the
Faculty of Informatics
Masaryk University Brno
Czech Republic


Description of the database
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cz2 is a diphone database for Czech, consisting of 1442 diphones, male
voice. The following phoneme symbols are assumed in our diphone sets.

caron (hacek, wedge)
In the representation of Czech orthography shown below c^, e^, n^, r^, s^,
z^ stand for c, e, n, r, s, z with a wedge accent (caron, hc^ek), and u@ stands 
for u with a ring (krouz^ek) above

PHONEME	IN WORD         IN WORD ISO LATIN2                              
a	ar	        ar	                              
a:	pd             pd                              
b	brok            brok                              
ts	cit             cit                              
tS	c^st		st
d	du@l            dl                              
dz	podzim		podzim
dZ	dz^em		dem
d'	dl             dl                              
e	med             med                              
e:	m              m                              
f	foukat, domov   foukat, domov                              
g	grafika         grafika                              
h\	hu@l            hl                              
i	idol            idol                              
i:	mr             mr                              
j	jak             jak                              
k	ku@r            kr                              
l	lid             lid                              
m	mr             mr                              
n	nu@z^           n                              
n'	nic             nic                              
o	oko             oko                              
o:	da             da                              
p	pak             pak                              
r	rak             rak                              
r'	R^ek, tr^i      ek, ti                              
s	sl             sl                              
S	s^l            l                              
t	to              to                              
t'	ti              ti                              
u	ucho            ucho                              
u:	sta            sta                              
v	val             val                              
x	chval           chval                              
z	zip             zip                              
Z	z^k            k                              

This database contains all possible diphones (square matrix).

Contact:
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Ales Horak <hales@fi.muni.cz>
Mikulas Pinos <pinos@fi.muni.cz>
Pavel Smrz <smrz@fi.muni.cz>
