Development and implementation of Hindi TTS

Author

Balyan, Archana ; Agrawal, S.S. ; Dev, Amita ; Kumari, Ruchika

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECE, GGSIP Univ., New Delhi, India

fYear

2015

fDate

11-13 March 2015

Firstpage

458

Lastpage

463

Abstract

In this paper, the method adopted to build a phoneme-based Text-to-Speech synthesizer using principles of unit selection technique for Hindi is presented. The system consists of a text analyzer capable to separate phoneme from input text, a vocal database with recorded phonemes, a unit matching module and a synthesizer. Vocal database was generated through an automated speech segmentation based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The system is implemented on window platform on visual basic (C++). The Graphic User Interface of the developed TTS has been implemented successfully.

Keywords

Visual BASIC; audio databases; graphical user interfaces; hidden Markov models; natural language processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; HMM; Hindi TTS; Visual Basic; automated speech segmentation; graphic user interface; hidden Markov model; phoneme-based text-to-speech synthesizer; text analyzer; unit matching module; unit selection technique; vocal database; Databases; Graphical user interfaces; Hidden Markov models; Spectrogram; Speech; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Automatic segmentation; Hidden Markov Model; Phoneme; Text-to-speech; Unit Selection; Vocal database;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom), 2015 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

978-9-3805-4415-1

Type

conf

Filename

7100292