Bangla web page reader - An approach to Bangla text-to-speech conversion

This paper deals with the development of a Bangla text-to-speech conversion engine that reads and converts Bangla webpage to speech. The algorithm followed is letter-to-sound rules. The content of a webpage to be converted to speech has to be filtered out since it has html tags along with other text. Text Normalization is implemented though not to the fullest extent. The speech output is monotonous. Java has been used for the development of the program. The program will be beneficial to the users of Bangla websites especially those who are visually-impaired. The software program will also be helpful for reading Bangla e-books, newsletters, online newspapers etc.