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## Dataset Construction
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1. Gathering
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We first identified 3,904 common Cantonese syllables based on words.hk's syllable recordings.
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The, we ask the speech synthesis APIs to pronounce each of the syllables.
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The queries use SSML's phoneme attribute to precisely specify the syllable we want. Here's a sample SSML query that fetches the syllable jyut6:
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Apple voices are gathered using jyutping text directly and a native Cantonese ASR system is used to filter out unsupported syllables.
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2. Preprocessing
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* All audios are converted to 16kHz WAV files
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* Peak normalize all audios to -20 dBFS
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* Clip silence at the beginning and end (sound below -50 dBFS are deemed silence)
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3. Verification
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Occassionally, some syllables are not synthesized correctly.
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* Apple voices usually renders tone 5 syllables as tone 2: we remove all tone 5 syllables from apple voices
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* Microsoft voices prepends consonants like ng, g, and b in front of isolate vowel syllables like aa: we remove all vowel syllables from microsoft voices
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## Dataset Construction
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1. Gathering
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We first identified 3,904 common Cantonese syllables based on words.hk's syllable recordings.
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The, we ask the speech synthesis APIs to pronounce each of the syllables.
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The queries use SSML's phoneme attribute to precisely specify the syllable we want. Here's a sample SSML query that fetches the syllable jyut6:
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Apple voices are gathered using jyutping text directly and a native Cantonese ASR system is used to filter out unsupported syllables.
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2. Preprocessing
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* All audios are converted to 16kHz WAV files
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* Peak normalize all audios to -20 dBFS
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* Clip silence at the beginning and end (sound below -50 dBFS are deemed silence)
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3. Verification
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Occassionally, some syllables are not synthesized correctly.
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* Apple voices usually renders tone 5 syllables as tone 2: we remove all tone 5 syllables from apple voices
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* Microsoft voices prepends consonants like ng, g, and b in front of isolate vowel syllables like aa: we remove all vowel syllables from microsoft voices
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