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Festival Framework for Synthesis of Punjabi Voice

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Speech generation is process of converting the text to speech called TTS system. This paper presents the generation of Punjabi waveform by using Festival framework. Building of new voice is done through support of Festvox, Festival and Speech Tools. Festival acts as an Engine for waveform synthesis and statistical parametric synthesis method is implemented for building Punjabi voice. The required data for building the voice is recorded in the noiseless environment and maximum Punjabi valid phonemes are covered in the corpus. Text Processing is done to collect the nice prompts to build the accurate voice Model. The accuracy factor is calculated through Mel-cepstral distortion (MCD) parameters.

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  1. GNA University, Phagwara, India

    Sukhpreet Kaur Gill

  2. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, India

    Parminder Singh

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

    C. Rama Krishna

  2. Department of Educational Television Centre, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Maitreyee Dutta

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Rakesh Kumar

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Gill, S.K., Singh, P. (2019). Festival Framework for Synthesis of Punjabi Voice. In: Krishna, C., Dutta, M., Kumar, R. (eds) Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Networking. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 46. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1217-5_41

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