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English Text to Speech Synthesizer Using Concatenation Technique

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Text to speech synthesis (TTS) system is used to produce artificial human speech for input text. Any language text can be converted into speech signal using TTS system. This paper presents a method to design a text to speech synthesis system for English language. Container map data structure is used to design the TTS system. Phoneme concatenation is performed to get speech signal for input text. Phonetically rich 42 words in English language are recorded then phonemes are extracted from these recorded words using PRAAT tool. The extracted phonemes are compared with input text phonemes and then concatenated sequentially to reconstruct the desired words. Implementation of this method is simple and requires less memory usage.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India

    Sai Sawant & Mangesh Deshpande

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  1. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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  2. Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, India

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  3. Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India

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  4. Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    Jan Flusser

  5. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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Sawant, S., Deshpande, M. (2018). English Text to Speech Synthesizer Using Concatenation Technique. In: Singh, M., Gupta, P., Tyagi, V., Flusser, J., Ören, T. (eds) Advances in Computing and Data Sciences. ICACDS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 905. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1810-8_47

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