A mapper and combiner based Marathi text to speech synthesis using English TTS Engine

Now a days English Text to Speech (TTS) Engines are available online as well as offline. There is very less work has been done in Devanagari TTS systems especially for Marathi text. However, in this paper a new method is proposed for a Devanagari (Marathi) Text To Speech system. Here a new technique is proposed with mapper and combiner in order to build Marathi TTS system. The Marathi TTS system is designed using existing English TTS Engine. Marathi input text is mapped with the text present in the database using simple Linear search algorithm then it is provided as input to the Existing English TTS. Currently Concatenative speech synthesis is the method mostly used in TTS systems. Main drawbacks in Concatenation Synthesis, such as glitches, reverberations, spectral mismatch and requirement for huge database are removed up to great extent. The proposed system introduces new concept, which is more feasible and easier than the earlier methods used for Marathi Text-To-Speech. Also the proposed method provides maximum accuracy for text mapping.