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A System for the Conversion of Digital Gujarati Text-to-Speech for Visually Impaired People

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Speech and Language Processing for Human-Machine Communications

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Abstract

In the epoch of hi-tech development, study on Text-to-Speech conversion shows remarkable enhancement in last couple of decades. Visually impaired people are not able to read, so Text-to-Speech system acts as an aid for visually impaired people for reading by hearing the text. In this paper, we presented the development of computer-based Gujarati Text-to-Speech system that delivers text in Gujarati audio form. Arbitrary digital Gujarati text is considered as an input to the system; conversion is done with regard to the Akshara of Gujarati language, and sound is produced in the form of phoneme, diphone, or syllable as per the requirement. Single audio file is created of the text so that it can also be heard at later stage. The detailed algorithm along with the format of speech database is also presented in the paper. Proposed system is tested on the documents collected from online news Web site and it gives satisfactory result.

Ms. Nikisha B. Jariwala, Ph.D. Scholar & Asst. Professor of Smt. Tanuben & Dr. Manubhai Trivedi College of Information Science, affiliated to Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, Gujarat, India.

Dr. Bankim Patel, Director, Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management & Computer Application, Uka Tarsadia University, Maliba Campus, Gujarat, India.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank trustee Shri. Anand Chokhavala, the Principal Mrs. Manisha Gajjar, and the recording studio In-charge Ms. Jyoti Jariwala of Ambaben Maganlal Andhjan Shala, Surat, for their cooperation by supporting us for recording audio and by providing necessary resources needed for the work. We would also like to thank Dr. Naren Burade to motivate us for the work on Text-to-Speech conversion for visually impaired people.

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  1. Smt. Tanuben & Dr. Manubhai Trivedi College of Information Science, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Nikisha Jariwala

  2. Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management & Computer Application, Uka Tarsadia University, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Bankim Patel

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Jariwala, N., Patel, B. (2018). A System for the Conversion of Digital Gujarati Text-to-Speech for Visually Impaired People. In: Agrawal, S., Devi, A., Wason, R., Bansal, P. (eds) Speech and Language Processing for Human-Machine Communications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 664. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6626-9_8

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