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Nepali Text to Speech Synthesis System using ESNOLA Method of Concatenation

by Bhusan Chettri, Krishna Bikram Shah
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 62 - Number 2
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Bhusan Chettri, Krishna Bikram Shah
10.5120/10053-4909

Bhusan Chettri, Krishna Bikram Shah . Nepali Text to Speech Synthesis System using ESNOLA Method of Concatenation. International Journal of Computer Applications. 62, 2 ( January 2013), 24-28. DOI=10.5120/10053-4909

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title = { Nepali Text to Speech Synthesis System using ESNOLA Method of Concatenation },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { January 2013 },
volume = { 62 },
number = { 2 },
month = { January },
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issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 24-28 },
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Abstract

This paper confer the tools and methodology used in developing a Nepali Text to Speech Synthesis System, which is based on concatenative approach employing Epoch Synchronous Non Overlap Add Method (ESNOLA), which uses signal dictionary having raw sound signal representing parts of phonemes as a speech database. The developed system is an unintonated (flat) TTS system where the pitch of the pre-recorded speech signal remains same throughout, while taking care of aspects such as naturalness, personality, platform independence and quality assessments. Some of the applications and problems encountered with TTS systems are also discussed.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

TTS ESNOLA Partneme Speech Synthetic Synthesis

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