SPEECH SYNTHESIS
SUBMITTED BY AAYUSHEE GUPTA MONALIKA BISWAS ANTARIKA BARUAH
OBJECTIVE
SPEECH SYNTHESIS : Artificial production of human speech. SPEECH SYNTHESIZER: Computer system used for speech synthesis and can be implemented in software and hardware. OUR OBJECTIVE : To primarily use MATLAB or Java for developing the Text-to-Speech software and implement it in an application like a talking dictionary or any other application for educational purpose
SCOPE
APPLICATIONS Screen readers for people with visual impairment People with Dyslexia Educating pre-literate children People with severe verbal impairment In combination with Speech Recognition
PROCESS DESCRIPTION
text-to-speech system (or "engine") is composed of two parts: a front-end and a back-end FRONT-END text normalization, pre-processing, or tokenization text-to-phoneme or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. BACK-END converts the symbolic linguistic representation into sound
IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS
MATLAB VOICEBOX TOOLBOX Toolbox comprising of MATLAB routines Functions for speech synthesis include: Sapisynth: Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) of a string or matrix entries Glotros: Calculates the Rosenberg model of the glottal flow waveform Glotlf: Calculates the Liljencrants-Fant model of the glottal flow waveform
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JSAPI: [Link] [Link] package defines the Synthesizer interface to support speech synthesis Includes a set of supporting classes and interfaces. Functionality of a Synthesizer is inherited from the Engine interface in the [Link] package.
GANTT CHART
Date
Final Project Demo Completion of Software Implementation Progress Report 2 Partial implementation Interface Design and Coding Progress Report 1 Finalisation of application and platform Synopsis
23/Nov/11 09/Nov/11 26/Oct/11 12/Oct/11 28/Sep/11 07/Sep/11 31/Aug/11 17/Aug/11
PLATFORM TO BE USED
OPERATING SYSTEM- MS WINDOWS
MATLAB SOFTWARE JAVA SPEECH API/ MICROSOFT SPEECH API ORACLE/MYSQL/MS-ACCESS
REFERENCES
VOICEBOX ([Link] [Link]) JSAPI ([Link] TTSBOX ([Link] WIKIPEDIA ([Link] SPRINGER ([Link] 490/)