To build a natural sounding speech synthesis system, it is essential that the text processing component produce an appropriate sequence of phonemic units corresponding to an arbitrary input text. In this paper we discuss our efforts in addressing the issues of Font-to-Akshara mapping, pronunciation rules for Aksharas, text normalization in the context of building text-to-speech systems in Indian languages.
Cite as: Raj, A.A., Sarkar, T., Pammi, S.C., Yuvaraj, S., Bansal, M., Prahallad, K., Black, A.W. (2007) Text processing for text-to-speech systems in Indian languages. Proc. 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 6), 188-193
@inproceedings{raj07_ssw,
author={Anand Arokia Raj and Tanuja Sarkar and Satish Chandra Pammi and Santhosh Yuvaraj and Mohit Bansal and Kishore Prahallad and Alan W. Black},
title={{Text processing for text-to-speech systems in Indian languages}},
year=2007,
booktitle={Proc. 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 6)},
pages={188--193}
}