We report the design and development of Thirukkurul, the first text-to-speech converter in Tamil. Syllables of different lengths have been selected as units since Tamil is a syllabic language. Automatic segmentation algorithm [8] has been devised for segmenting syllables into consonant and vowel. The units are pitch marked using Discrete Co-
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