Welsh text-to-speech synthesis (TTS)</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Welsh text-to-speech synthesis (TTS)"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Welsh,text-to-speech,synthesis,(TTS)"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">25-08-2006</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Welsh text-to-speech synthesis (TTS)</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Cardiff, Wales (Ping): The Language Technologies Unit (LTU) at Canolfan Bedwyr, Bangor University, has teamed up with European voice-on-the-web solution provider ReadSpeaker to provide Welsh voice-enabled websites for the public sector. So far attempts at a synthetic Welsh voice merely adapted a synthetic English voice and thus offered only an approximation of the sounds needed. In contrast, the new Welsh text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system developed by LTU and ReadSpeaker is more comprehensible, with improved phrasing and intonation, as well as expanded vocabulary. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/NewsRedirect.php?article=00737 " target="blank">www.pingwales.co.uk/NewsRedirect.php?article=00737 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show