Experiments with Unit Selection Speech Databases for Indian Languages

Authors: S P Kishore,Alan W Black,Rohit Kumar,Rajeev Sangal
Conference: Presented in the seminar on Language Technology Tools: Implementation of Telugu, 2003, Hyderabad, India

Date: 2003-12-31
Report no: IIIT/TR/2003/2

Abstract

This paper presents a brief overview of unit selection speech synthesis and discuss the issues relevant to the development of voices for Indian languages. We discuss a few perceptual experiments conducted on Hindi and Telugu voices.

Centre for Language Technologies Research Centre

IIIT Hyderabad Publications

Experiments with Unit Selection Speech Databases for Indian Languages

Abstract