Marathi Speech Synthesized Using Unit selection Algorithm

Abstract

In this paper, we present the concatenative text-to-speech system and discuss the issues relevant to the development of a Marathi speech synthesizer using different choice of units: Words, Di phone and Tri phone as a database. Quality of the synthesizer with different unit size indicates that the word synthesizer performs better than the phoneme synthesizer. The most important qualities of a speech synthesis system are naturalness and intelligibility. We synthesize the Marathi text and perform the subjective evaluations of the synthesized speech. As a result 85% of speech synthesized by the proposed method was preferred to that by the conventional method; the results show the effectiveness of the proposed method. In this paper we are going to focus on a Dip hone and Trip hone through which will get a 95% quality voice.