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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 |
Appears in Collections: | Linguistics |
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