# ru_tts speech synthesizer

An alternative implementation of the Phonemophone-5 Russian speech synthesizer by the international laboratory of intelligent systems BelSInt (the Speech Recognition and Synthesis Lab of the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR). This implementation is the result of a reverse engineering of the SDRV resident speech driver for MS-DOS, and it is officially approved for publication under a free license by Boris Lobanov, who is the head of the laboratory and the author of the design solutions that formed the basis of the speech synthesizer.

## Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following organizations and people for their contributions to the project:

- the international laboratory of intelligent systems BelSInt for the development of the original SDRV resident speech driver;
- Dmitry Paduchikh for help in the initial disassembly of the SDRV resident speech driver;
- Boris Lobanov for the creation of the Phonemophone-5 speech synthesizer and approval of the publication of the results of a reverse engineering of the SDRV resident speech driver under a free license.

## Scientific publications

In any papers or publications that use or mentioned the design solutions of the Phonemophone-5 speech synthesizer, please cite the following article:

- Ivanov A.N., Lobanov B.M. - PHONEMOPHONE speech synthesizer for CAD based on IBM PC // Abstracts report conf. “Theory and methods of creating intelligent CAD systems”. - Minsk, 1992. - pp. 29-30 (in Russian).

The above article is a basic publication about the original implementation of the Phonemophone-5 speech synthesizer for MS-DOS.

The microwave speech synthesis method developed by Boris Lobanov and used in the Phonemophone-5 is also described in the following scientific publications:

- Lobanov B.M. - Microwave Speech Synthesis // Automatic recognition of auditory images (ARAI-16). - Moscow, 1991. - pp. 27-31 (in Russian).
- Lobanov B.M. - Microwave Speech Synthesis from Text // Analysis and speech synthesis. - Minsk: the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of the ASB, 1991. - pp. 57-73 (in Russian).
- Lobanov B.M. - Programming Model of Microwave Speech Synthesis from Text // Automatic recognition of auditory images (ARAI-14). - Moscow, 1991. - pp. 82-84 (in Russian).
- Lobanov B. - Microwave Speech Synthesis from Text // Proc. of the 24 Fachkolloquim Informationstechnik. - Dresden, 1991. - pp. 118-120.

(For the original Russian titles of the scientific publications, see the Russian version of ReadMe.)