SPEECH SYNTHESIS

SUBMITTED BY AAYUSHEE GUPTA MONALIKA BISWAS ANTARIKA BARUAH

OBJECTIVE
SPEECH SYNTHESIS : Artificial production of human speech. SPEECH SYNTHESIZER: Computer system used for speech synthesis and can be implemented in software and hardware. OUR OBJECTIVE : To primarily use MATLAB or Java for developing the Text-to-Speech software and implement it in an application like a talking dictionary or any other application for educational purpose

SCOPE

APPLICATIONS Screen readers for people with visual impairment People with Dyslexia Educating pre-literate children People with severe verbal impairment In combination with Speech Recognition

PROCESS DESCRIPTION

text-to-speech system (or "engine") is composed of two parts: a front-end and a back-end FRONT-END text normalization, pre-processing, or tokenization text-to-phoneme or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. BACK-END converts the symbolic linguistic representation into sound

IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS

MATLAB VOICEBOX TOOLBOX Toolbox comprising of MATLAB routines Functions for speech synthesis include: Sapisynth: Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) of a string or matrix entries Glotros: Calculates the Rosenberg model of the glottal flow waveform Glotlf: Calculates the Liljencrants-Fant model of the glottal flow waveform

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JSAPI: javax.speech.synthesis javax.speech.synthesis package defines the Synthesizer interface to support speech synthesis Includes a set of supporting classes and interfaces. Functionality of a Synthesizer is inherited from the Engine interface in the javax.speech package.

GANTT CHART
Date

Final Project Demo Completion of Software Implementation Progress Report 2 Partial implementation Interface Design and Coding Progress Report 1 Finalisation of application and platform Synopsis

23/Nov/11 09/Nov/11 26/Oct/11 12/Oct/11 28/Sep/11 07/Sep/11 31/Aug/11 17/Aug/11

PLATFORM TO BE USED

OPERATING SYSTEM- MS WINDOWS

MATLAB SOFTWARE JAVA SPEECH API/ MICROSOFT SPEECH API ORACLE/MYSQL/MS-ACCESS

REFERENCES
VOICEBOX (http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/voicebox/voicebo x.html) JSAPI (http://java.sun.com/products/javamedia/speech/reference/whitepapers/index.html) TTSBOX (http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/projects/ttsbox/home.html) WIKIPEDIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis) SPRINGER (http://www.springerlink.com/content/n8r47647n225u 490/)