Development of Telugu Text to Speech System Using OMAP 3530

Speech is the important mode of communication. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A text to speech system is to convert an arbitrary text into speech .In India different languages have been spoken each being the mother tongue of tens of millions of people. This text to speech sytem is primarily developed for Telugu, a Dravidian language predominantly spoken in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh where it is an official language. Telugu TTS has to face many challenges during the conversion of text to speech.The most important qualities expected from this system are naturalness and intelligibility. This paper describes a development of a Telugu text to speech system using concatenative synthesis method using beagle board OMAP 3530(ARM Cortex A-8 core) in linux.