Abstract
This paper deals with some important issues of a Chinese to Taiwanese TTS system. The first issue is to determine the meanings and pronunciations of the Chinese word for we in Chinese texts. There are two pronunciations of the word in Taiwanese. The two pronunciations are /ghun/ and /lan/ with the corresponding meanings of the Chinese words. The second issue we bring up is to determine the prosodic words in a Taiwanese TTS system. The tone sandhi in Taiwanese is more common than that in a Mandarin TTS system. We try to find a method to determine the prosodic words of an input text. The achieved precision rate of the first issue we got is 81.4% for outside test, and the precision rate of the second issue is 79.5%.
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