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Title: Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System
Authors: Weerasinghe, A.R.
Wasala, R.A.
Gamage, K.N.
Keywords: Algorithms
Syllabication
Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka
Issue Date: 2007
Publisher: Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ IJCNLP: International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
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.
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/2879
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