Cepstral LLC
1801 E. Carson St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15203 USA
laura@cepstral.com
We present a concatenative, general-domain Arabic synthesizer that runs 7 times faster than real time with a 9MB footprint. The voice itself was developed over only a few months, without access to costly prepared databases. It has been evaluated using standard test protocols with results comparable to those achieved by English voices of the same size with the same level of development.