Abstract
This paper brings together the development of the first Text-to-Speech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the Festival framework and practical applications of it. Construction of a diphone database and implementation of the natural language processing modules are described. The paper also presents the development methodology of direct Sinhala Unicode text input by rewriting letter-to-sound rules in Festival's context sensitive rule format and the implementation of Sinhala syllabification algorithm. A Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) was conducted to evaluate the intelligibility of the synthesized speech and yielded a score of 71.5% for the TTS system described. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Weerasinghe, R., Wasala, A., Welgama, V., & Gamage, K. (2007). Festival-si: A sinhala text-to-speech system. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4629 LNAI, pp. 472–479). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_61
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