Govorec 3 is a speech synthesiser produced by the company Amebis, d. o. o. and is an example of the language technology currently under development and improvement in Slovenia. The author was involved in the development of the synthesiser for two years, dealing with the dictionary of pronunciations (currently 6,900,000 word forms), the transcriptions of the spoken database and the pronunciation rules or graphemic-phonemic conversions. The paper looks at how Govorec 3 works and how it was developed. The spoken database and its transcription is presented, as well as different kinds of voice synthesis, graphemic-phonemic conversions and grammatical analysis. A survey is also presented, which points to the need for a new speech synthesiser.
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