• DocumentCode
    256225
  • Title

    Technical aspects in development of Marathi calculator using text to speech synthesizer

  • Author

    Gore Megha, B. ; Surwase, S.V. ; Karande, K.J.

  • Author_Institution
    SKN Sinhgad Coll. of Eng., Pandharpur, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    22-24 Dec. 2014
  • Firstpage
    92
  • Lastpage
    96
  • Abstract
    India is a multilingual country (22 official languages) and again the population of about 120 millions in which the category of visually challenged persons is about 15% in 6% of physically challenged persons. [National Sample survey by M.S.] In India these 15 % of VC peoples live at different locations and use the native language of that location for communication. It has therefore been a dream for VC people to have text to speech synthesizer that read in the native language using a keyboard of their choice. Maharashtra is one of the states which lead the population of India having Marathi as regional language. Physically challenged persons will be the beneficiary because of Assistive Technologies (AT). No longer do VC persons need to depend on others to access common information that others take for granted, such as newspapers, bank statements. This paper represents the methodology and the distinct stages in the development of Marathi talking calculator. Also the development of addition operator and its operating results are discussed. There are various techniques available for concatenation of text to speech. In this paper use of combination of database technique is used to minimize the database which is most prominent task of text to speech technology.
  • Keywords
    assisted living; electronic calculators; handicapped aids; natural language processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; AT; Marathi talking calculator; VC people; assistive technology; native language usage; physically challenged person; text to speech concatenation; text to speech synthesizer; visually challenged person; Calculators; Databases; Speech; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Calculator; Concatenative; Marathi; Text; speech;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Computing and Networking (GCWCN), 2014 IEEE Global Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Lonavala
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GCWCN.2014.7030855
  • Filename
    7030855