A syllable-based framework for unit selection synthesis in 13 Indian languages
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...The major issue in the unavailability of good quality TTS systems for Indian languages is due to the unavailability of linguistic resources for minority languages (which are not well researched) [62], and appropriate speech synthesis models....
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...[62] presented the efforts to build a high-quality syllable-based framework for unit selection for 13 Indian languages, namely Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Assamese, Manipuri, Odia and Bodo....
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...Even though fewer researchers are working on designing TTS systems for a few Indian languages, till now a generic TTS system for all 22 official Indian languages is not available for common use [62]....
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...Given a neutral Text-to-speech (TTS) system and prosody modification rules associated with each story genre, the TTS system should synthesize story speech....
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...Occasionally English words that are not in the dictionary are spelled....
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...This system is based on the Klatt synthesis system for English [6]....
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...To facilitate this, colloquial words and English words were also collected....
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...It is quite common that most Indian language text will invariably contain English words....
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...Naturalness in Indian language speaking arises from colloquialism and the use of English words frequently in a native tongue conversation....
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