A complete text-to-speech synthesis system in Tamil

被引：10
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作者：
Rama, GLJ [1 ]
Ramakrishnan, AG [1 ]
Muralishankar, R [1 ]
Prathibha, R [1 ]
机构：
[1] Indian Inst Sci, Dept Elect Engn, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
来源：
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2002 IEEE WORKSHOP ON SPEECH SYNTHESIS | 2002年
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D O I：
10.1109/WSS.2002.1224406
中图分类号：
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号：
0812 ;
摘要：
We report the design and development of Thirukkural, the first text-to-speech converter in Tamil. Syllables of different lengths have been selected as units since Tamil is a syllabic language. Automatic segmentation algorithm [8] has been devised for segmenting syllables into consonant and vowel. The units are pitch marked using Discrete Cosine Transform - Spectral Auto-correlation Function (DCT-SAF) [6]. Prosodic information is captured in tables based on extensive observation of spoken Tamil. During synthesis, DCT based pitch modification [3][7][11] is applied for both waveform interpolation and modifying pitch contour for different sentence modalities. Thirukkural is designed in VC++ and runs on windows 95/98/NT. Perceptual evaluation by natives show that the synthesized speech is intelligible and fairly natural.
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页码：191 / 194
页数：4
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