A Romanian Language Corpus for a Commercial Text-To-Speech Application

Text and speech corpora are a prerequisite for the development of an effective commercial text-to-speech system, using the concatenative technology. Given that such a system needs to synthesize both common and domain-specific discourses, the considered corpora are of main importance. This paper presents the authors’ experience in creating a corpus for the Romanian language, designed to support a concatenative TTS system, able to reproduce common and domain-specific sentences with naturalness.