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Translation of a Given Simple English Sentence into its Equivalent in Sinhala using a Speech Synthesizer

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dc.contributor.author Wickramasinghe, R.I.P.
dc.contributor.author Kumara, H.M.
dc.contributor.author Dias, N.G.J.
dc.date.accessioned 2015-03-20T06:05:30Z
dc.date.available 2015-03-20T06:05:30Z
dc.date.issued 2005
dc.identifier Statistics & Computer Science en_US
dc.identifier.citation Wickramasinghe, R.I.P., Kumara, H.M. and Dias, N.G.J., 2005. Translation of a Given Simple English Sentence into its Equivalent in Sinhala using a Speech Synthesizer, In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies, University of Kelaniya, pp 96. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5875
dc.description.abstract Machine Translation (MT) or Automatic Translation is generally concern about automating all or part of the process of translating one human language to another language. These human or natural languages bear similarities as well as differences due to the way these languages have organized. Therefore, translating from one natural language into another natural language depends on their vocabulary, grammar, and conceptual structure. The translation Text-To-Speech (TTS) can be considered as the automatic production of speech, through a grapheme-to-phoneme transcription of the sentences to utter. To our knowledge there is no such a system in Sri Lanka that could translate simple English sentences into its equivalent in Sinhala with the relevant speech synthesis. In a country like Sri Lanka where the language barrier is a major issue, this type of systems will definitely help to reduce these language problems. With language translation coupled with TTS synthesis would be a good Computer Aided Learning Technique, that will provide a tool to learn English effectively. This paper discusses an approach to translation with a speech synthesizer of a given simple English sentence into its Sinhala equivalent. The problem of translation is handled in two phases, namely the lexical selection, where appropriate target-language lexical items are chosen for each source-language lexical item and then the lexical reordering, where the chosen target-language lexical items are arranged to produce a meaningful target language string. Together with translator, here we use the concatenative synthesizer which is embedded in the speech units to be chained up. In our speech synthesizer, speech units that are typically smaller than words are used to synthesize speech from arbitrary input text. Speech units are algorithmically extracted from a phonetically transcribed speech data set. The unit selection process involves a combinatorial search over the entire speech corpus using the search algorithms. Due to the practical difficulties and complexities this translation and TTS is tested only for the simple English sentences in which only SVO (Subject/Verb/Object) structure can be seen. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Kelaniya en_US
dc.subject Language Translation en_US
dc.subject TTS en_US
dc.subject English en_US
dc.subject Machine Translation en_US
dc.subject Sinhala en_US
dc.title Translation of a Given Simple English Sentence into its Equivalent in Sinhala using a Speech Synthesizer en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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