| dc.contributor.author |
Weerasinghe, A.R. |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.author |
Wasala, R.A. |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.author |
Gamage, K.N. |
en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned |
2014-11-13T08:52:49Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2014-11-13T08:52:49Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2007 |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/2879 |
|
| dc.description.abstract |
This paper brings together the development of the
first Text-to-Speech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the
Festival framework and practical applications of it.
Construction of a diphone database and
implementation of the natural language processing
modules are described. The paper also presents the
development methodology of direct Sinhala Unicode
text input by rewriting Letter-to-Sound rules in
Festival's context sensitive rule format and the
implementation of Sinhala syllabification algorithm. A
Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) was conducted to
evaluate the intelligibility of the synthesized speech
and yielded a score of 71.5% for the TTS system
described. |
en_US |
| dc.publisher |
Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ IJCNLP: International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Algorithms |
|
| dc.subject |
Syllabication |
|
| dc.subject |
Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka |
|
| dc.title |
Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System |
|
| dc.type |
Article |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.department |
Linguistics |
en_US |