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Corpus Driven Malayalam Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Interactive Voice Response System

Publication Type : Journal Article

Thematic Areas : Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN)

Publisher : International Journal of Computer Applications

Source : International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 29, p.41-46 (2011)

Url : https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Corpus-Driven-Malayalam-Text-to-Speech-Synthesis-Arun-Kumar/f9f8c39df1d750f34c47ee8f189b71e5e0105871

Campus : Coimbatore

School : School of Engineering

Center : Computational Engineering and Networking

Department : Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN), Electronics and Communication

Year : 2011

Abstract : A text-to-speech system, spoken utterances are automatically produced from text. In this paper, we present a corpus-driven Malayalam text-to-speech (TTS) system based on the concatenative synthesis approach. The most important qualities of a synthesized speech are naturalness and intelligibility. In this system, words and syllables are used as the basic units for synthesis. Our corpus consists of speech waveforms that are collected for most frequently used words in different domains. The speaker is selected through subjective and objective evaluation of natural and synthesized waveform. The proposed Malayalam text-to-speech system is implemented in Java multimedia framework (JMF) and runs on both in Windows and Linux platforms. The proposed system provides utility to save the synthesized output. The output generated by the proposed Malayalam text-to-speech synthesis system resembles natural human voice. Our text to speech reader software converts a Malayalam text to speech wav file that has high rates of intelligibility and comprehensibility

Cite this Research Publication : Arun S, Sachin Kumar S, Hemanth VK, M Sabarimalai Manikandan, KP Soman, Corpus Driven Malayalam Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Interactive Voice Response System, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol 29, No 4, 2011

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