The development of syllable based text to speech system for Tamil language

Abstract

Speech synthesis is the most significant applications in linguistic communication process. The Text to Speech structure is the undertaking of accepts the input sentence and converts the audible speech as output. The Tamil language may be a syllable based language. A syllable is the unit of language, which may be spoken independent of the adjacent phones. It consists of an interrupted portion of sound, once the word is pronounced. The task of proposed Text to Speech System for Tamil language includes syllabication, Letter-to-Sound rules and concatenation. Syllabication is that the method of distinguishing the linguistic unit units, that is presented within the given input. The Trainable Text syllabication algorithm is employed for deriving the syllables. The Letter to Sound mapping technique is employed for changing the text to phonemes. These phonemes square measure mapped with the waveform that may be a recorded sound file, which can be a variety of wave files. The recorded sounds are concatenated by Unit selection Speech Synthesis algorithm, which uses the massive databases of recorded speech. The efficient joining cost is required to be calculated for locating the best sequence of speech as synthesized output. Java Media Framework speak engine is employed to synthesis the speech. The proposed text to speech system founded on syllable unit for Tamil language is employed to boost the excellence of speech.