Development of TTS Engine for Indian Accent using Modified HMM Algorithm

A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech. An intelligent text-to-speech program allows people with visual impairments or reading disabilities, to listen to written works on a home computer. Many computer operating systems and day to day software applications like Adobe Reader have included text-to-speech systems. This paper is presented to show that how HMM can be used as a tool to convert text to speech.

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Multilingual Text to Speech in embedded systems using RC8660

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY ◽

10.24297/ijct.v13i4.2859 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 4374-4381

Author(s):

Azadeh Nazemi ◽

Iain Murray ◽

David A. McMeekin

Keyword(s):

Embedded System ◽

Reading Disabilities ◽

Low Cost ◽

Text To Speech ◽

Hardware Platform ◽

Electronic Documents ◽

Software Applications ◽

Application Processor ◽

Multilingual Text ◽

Processor Board

Most multilingual Test to Speech (TTS) systems are software applications which allow people with visual impairments or reading disabilities to listen the written material using computer. This paper describes an approach to make a multilingual TTS and embed it into the portable, low cost, and standalone embedded system to access and read electronic documents particularly in developing countries. There are several TTS such as Doubletalk, DECtalk, and Dolphin available in market, also there are some products using TTS such as Talking OCR, Bill Reader and Intel Reader, which are not affordable or multilingual. To design this system OMAP3530 an application processor board is considered as the hardware platform to process the language-independent parts of the application and RC8660 used as an integrated TTS processor.Â

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Adaptive embedded technologies: hardware acceleration

10.32920/ryerson.14648967 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ryan Meghdies-Vardeh

Keyword(s):

Operating Systems ◽

System Performance ◽

Hardware Acceleration ◽

Primary Objective ◽

Programmable Logic ◽

Consumer Market ◽

Device Drivers ◽

Software Applications ◽

Integration Strategy ◽

Integration Strategies

This thesis establishes the benefits of multi-architecture systems by using reconfigurable modules in conjunction with a case integration strategy to improve system performance. The modules and strategies discussed in this thesis provide opportunities to the improve system performance of processing units designed for the consumer market. The primary objective for this work is to improve the performance of consumer processors using programmable logic, while ensuring the changes are abstracted from operating systems and software applications. This thesis accomplishes this using specified integration strategies, protocols and through optimization of device drivers.

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Morpho-Syntactic Analysis Framework for Tone Language Text-to-Speech Systems

Computer and Information Science ◽

10.5539/cis.v5n4p83 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Moses Ekpenyong ◽

Emem Obong Udoh

Keyword(s):

Syntactic Analysis ◽

Analysis Framework ◽

Text To Speech ◽

Tone Language ◽

Language Text

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The Interdependent Roles of All Players in Making Technology Accessible

Journal of Special Education Technology ◽

10.1177/016264340301800402 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 21-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Terry Thompson

Keyword(s):

Assistive Technology ◽

Operating Systems ◽

Difficult Problem ◽

Authoring Tools ◽

Software Applications ◽

Current State ◽

Systems Software ◽

K 12

Making technology accessible is a complex and difficult problem, involving many individuals and groups. When a particular technology presents a barrier to an individual, who is at fault? Often blame is assigned to an individual technology developer, content developer, or educational entity, though doing so is often an oversimplification of the problem. In actuality, a variety of players, individually and through relationships with one another, play critical roles in making technology accessible. Players include consumers, technology developers (including developers of assistive technology, operating systems, software applications, user agents, and authoring tools), standards organizations, K-12 and postsecondary schools, employers, advocates and legislators. This article provides an overview of the current state of technology accessibility by examining the roles of each of these players and their interdependencies.

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A Context-based Numeral Reading Technique for Text to Speech Systems

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) ◽

10.11591/ijece.v8i6.pp4533-4544 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 4533

Author(s):

Soumya Priyadarsini Panda ◽

Ajit Kumar Nayak

Keyword(s):

Execution Time ◽

Indian Languages ◽

Text To Speech ◽

Indian Language ◽

Novel Technique ◽

Input Text ◽

Reading Technique ◽

Intelligible Speech ◽

Language Text

This paper presents a novel technique for context based numeral reading in Indian language text to speech systems. The model uses a set of rules to determine the context of the numeral pronunciation and is being integrated with the waveform concatenation technique to produce speech out of the input text in Indian languages. For this purpose, the three Indian languages Odia, Hindi and Bengali are considered. To analyze the performance of the proposed technique, a set of experiments are performed considering different context of numeral pronunciations and the results are compared with existing syllable-based technique. The results obtained from different experiments shows the effectiveness of the proposed technique in producing intelligible speech out of the entered text utterances compared to the existing technique even with very less storage and execution time.

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Perception of Synthetic and Natural Speech by Adults with Visual Impairments

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x0910300704 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 103 (7) ◽

pp. 403-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Konstantinos Papadopoulos ◽

Athanasios Koutsoklenis ◽

Evangelia Katemidou ◽

Areti Okalidou

Keyword(s):

Visual Impairments ◽

Natural Speech ◽

Synthetic Speech ◽

Key Factors ◽

Text To Speech ◽

Frequency Of Use ◽

The Relationship

This study investigated the intelligibility and comprehensibility of natural speech in comparison to synthetic speech. The results demonstrate the type of errors; the relationship between intelligibility and comprehensibility; and the correlation between intelligibility and comprehensibility and key factors, such as the frequency of use of text-to-speech systems.

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