Towards designing a high intelligibility rule based standard malay text-to-speech synthesis system
Although text-to-speech (TTS) technology has gained some interest from amateur and professional researchers in developing a Standard Malay (SM) text- to- speech synthesizer, however, up to this day, there is rarely any high intelligible TTS system which is freely accessible to be implemen...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/5916/1/04580574.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/5916/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580574 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Although text-to-speech (TTS) technology has
gained some interest from amateur and professional
researchers in developing a Standard Malay (SM) text-
to- speech synthesizer, however, up to this day, there is
rarely any high intelligible TTS system which is freely
accessible to be implemented and introduced to the
community of SM speakers. Therefore, identification of
the core components required for the development of
SM TTS system especially in establishing the NLP
module should be carried out intensively. This paper
presents a rule-based text- to- speech synthesis system
for Standard Malay, named SMaTTS. An intelligible
and adequately natural sounding formant-based
speech synthesis system with a light and user-friendly
Graphical User Interface (GUI) was developed. Result
and suggestion for future improvements is discussed.
The available Malay TTS synthesizers, the algorithms
and speech engine in used, as well as their strong and
weak points for each of the system are discussed in this
paper. Assessment was made at all possible levels;
phoneme, word and sentence level. The overall
performance of the system is analyzed using
Categorical Estimation (CE) for a comprehensive
analysis. Result and suggestion for future
improvements is discussed. |
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