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Speech Synthesis System for Telugu Language
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 81 - Number 5 |
| Year of Publication: 2013 |
| Authors: G. Swathi, C. Kiran Mai, B. Raveendra Babu |
10.5120/14009-2060
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G. Swathi, C. Kiran Mai, B. Raveendra Babu . Speech Synthesis System for Telugu Language. International Journal of Computer Applications. 81, 5 ( November 2013), 25-30. DOI=10.5120/14009-2060
Abstract
A system which takes input as a sequence of words and converts them to speech. Vowels and consonants are most important in Telugu language. The voices are sampled from real recorded speech. The speech synthesis is handheld by computers and mobile phones. To build a natural sounding speech synthesis system, it is essential that text processing component produce an appropriate sequence of phonemic units. Generation of sequence of phonetic units for a given standard word is referred to as letter to phoneme rule or text to phoneme rule. The complexity of these rules and their derivation depends upon the nature of the language. In Telugu TTS the input is Telugu text in Unicode. Speech synthesis is the technique of converting given input text to synthetic speech. Speech synthesis can be used to read written text as in e-mail, SMS, newspapers and can be used by blinds people. Speech synthesis has been widely researched in last four decades. The quality and intelligibility of the synthetic speech produced using the latest methods have been remarkably well for most of the applications. This project focuses primarily on the process of creating a voice for a concatenative Text-To-Speech system, or altering the TTS systems own standard output voice to sound more like the target voice.
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