Hindi & Telugu Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) and inter-language text Conversion
Lakshmi Sahu, Avinash Dhole, Bhaarah Khadi · 2012
In this paper, I am explaining single text-to-speech (TTS) system for Indian languages (Viz., Hindi, Telugu, Kannada etc.) to generate human voice or speech (text to a spoken waveform). In a text-to-speech system, spoken utterances are automatically produced from text. This paper present a corpus-driven text-to-speech (TTS) system based on the concatenative synthesis approach. The output generated by the proposed text-to-speech synthesis system resembles natural human voice. It accepts input in two forms: manual user entry and from file (text or MS Word document). Proposed system supports multiple way of output; direct to computer speakers, Wav file, or MP3 file. Generated output can have different accent, tone based on selected languages. The proposed text-to- speech system will be implemented in C#.Net (Windows Form Application) and runs on Windows platforms. This paper has examples for Hindi (North Indian) and Telugu (South Indian) languages' to elaborate proposed system. This It also elaborates inter-language text conversion (not translation). Therefore, Hindi text will be converted into Telugu text and vice-versa. The research and development of this TTS done for my M. Tech major project.