21st
century is a century of revolution in Artificial Intelligence
and Human Machine Interface Systems.
Text To Speech Technology is a branch of Artificial
Intelligence. Text To Speech Synthesis is a voice
technology in which raw text is converted into audible
speech. Text To Speech (TTS) is a process through
which input text is analyzed, processed, and "understood"…then
the text is rendered as digital audio and then "spoken".
Most Text To Speech Systems can be categorized by
the method that they use to translate phonemes into
audible sound. Some of them are listed below :
We
are proposing a new technique (RecSimCat Technique)
for the generation of Highly Intelligible synthesized
voice with a natural sound.
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Prerecorded
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Concatenated
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Formant
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RecSimCat
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Resource
requirement
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Very
large storage, Small memory
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Large
storage, Very large memory
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Low
storage, relatively small memory
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Low
storage, Low memory
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Vocabulary
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Limited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Voice
quality
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Natural,
Most pleasant
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Natural
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Robotic,
Sometimes not appreciated by the user
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Natural
|
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Multiple
featured voices
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Need
high storage in that case
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Need
high storage in that case
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Can
produce multiple featured voices without any
major changes
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Can
produce multiple featured voices without any
major changes
|
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Intelligibility
|
High
|
Highly
Intelligible
|
High
|
Highly
Intelligible
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Click here to get Voice Samples :
Hindi
Text To Speech Voice Samples
Features:
Output
Sample Rate and Sample Size of generated speech are
22 khz, 8 bit, mono.
Multiple featured voices of adult female, naughty
child, strong female, adult male etc.
User can vary the speed of pronunciation.
It
can run with this configuration or above:
· Pentium Processor 200 MHz
· OS = Windows 95/98, Me, NT, 2000
· 16 MB RAM
Applications
where Hindi TTS can be used:
