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An approach to building language-independent text-to-speech synthesis for Indian languages
Anusha Prakash,M. Ramasubba Reddy,T. Nagarajan,Hema A. Murthy +3 more
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A common framework for Indian languages with a common phone set and a common question set is proposed, indicating that system building can be made language-independent without much degradation in the quality of synthesised speech.Abstract:
A popular speech synthesis method is the HMM based speech synthesis method. Given the phone set and question set for a language, HMM based synthesis systems are built. Although robotic in quality the systems are intelligible. In this paper, we propose a common framework for Indian languages with a common phone set and a common question set. Owing to this architecture it is possible to borrow independent monophone models across languages. Degradation MOS and word error rate scores are comparable to systems built in the conventional language-specific manner, indicating that system building can be made language-independent without much degradation in the quality of synthesised speech.read more
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A Unified Parser for Developing Indian Language Text to Speech Synthesizers
TL;DR: The design of a language independent parser for text-to-speech synthesis in Indian languages is described and the accuracy of the phoneme sequences generated by the proposed parser is more accurate than that of language specific parsers.
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Building Multilingual End-to-End Speech Synthesisers for Indian Languages
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Acoustic Analysis of Syllables Across Indian Languages.
TL;DR: Degradation mean opinion scores and word error rates indicate that the quality of synthesised speech is comparable to that of TTSes developed by segmenting the data using language-specific HMMs.
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Polyglot Speech Synthesis: A Review
TL;DR: This report reviews existing efforts in the literature to develop a polyglot TTS and discusses the pros and cons of different methods and mentions possible directions to overcome the limitations.
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