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We
have designed a TTS system, which can utter any Oriya document
without ambiguity. The speech synthesizer for Oriya language is
designed by the character based concatenation technique. In this
method the words are parsed into characters and a character is
segregated into pure consonant and vowel. For example we get ‘ka’
(L)
from the word ‘kaTaka’ ()
and further this is separated as pure consonant ‘k’ ()
and ‘a’ ().
Likewise, all the pure consonants and vowels are stored in the ‘.wav’
format. As the vowels dominant in the utterance, they are stored
for different durations as they occur in the word. |
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Using the
techniques of Artificial Intelligence the synthesis of sound is
obtained.Further the transition between two characters is stored
by taking the help of Paninian philology to give a natural shape
to the output.These rules help us to slot in different levels of
pitch for incorporating prosody in the output. The classification
on the silence region and the unvoiced regions are also studied to
place these in proper places.
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Intonationmodeling is also an
important aspect for the synthesis system.The accuracy in
the Oriya-Synthesis system is more than 75% as it is been
tested by STQC, Banglore. We have received IPR for this
product from the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India in the year
2002.In
addition to Oriya language we are in the process of developing a
TTS system for Hindi in syllable base concatenation technique.
Here we apply ENSOLA algorithm for designing a robust system.
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