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BiCross : Corpus Driven Malayalam Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Interactive Voice Response System

by Arun Soman, Sachin Kumar S., Hemanth V. K.
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 29 - Number 4
Year of Publication: 2011
Authors: Arun Soman, Sachin Kumar S., Hemanth V. K.
10.5120/3551-4871

Arun Soman, Sachin Kumar S., Hemanth V. K. . BiCross : Corpus Driven Malayalam Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Interactive Voice Response System. International Journal of Computer Applications. 29, 4 ( September 2011), 41-46. DOI=10.5120/3551-4871

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author = { Arun Soman, Sachin Kumar S., Hemanth V. K. },
title = { BiCross : Corpus Driven Malayalam Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Interactive Voice Response System },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { September 2011 },
volume = { 29 },
number = { 4 },
month = { September },
year = { 2011 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 41-46 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume29/number4/3551-4871/ },
doi = { 10.5120/3551-4871 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

In a text-to-speech system, spoken utterances are automatically produced from text. In this paper, we present a corpus-driven Malayalam text-to-speech (TTS) system based on the concatenative synthesis approach. The most important qualities of a synthesized speech are naturalness and intelligibility. In this system, words and syllables are used as the basic units for synthesis. Our corpus consists of speech waveforms that are collected for most frequently used words in different domains. The speaker is selected through subjective and objective evaluation of natural and synthesized waveform. The proposed Malayalam text-to-speech system is implemented in Java multimedia framework (JMF) and runs on both in Windows and Linux platforms. The proposed system provides utility to save the synthesized output. The output generated by the proposed Malayalam text-to-speech synthesis system resembles natural human voice. Our text to speech reader software converts a Malayalam text to speech wav file that has high rates of intelligibility and comprehensibility.

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Text-to-Speech Concatenation Speech Synthesis Text Normalization Romanization

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