Phoneme based myanmar text to speech system

Hlaing, Chaw Su; Thida, Aye

doi:10.19101/ijacr.2017.733036

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“…Phoneme based Myanmar TTS system has been developed in [12]. In their paper, the syllable that has half sound did not consider.…”

Section: Proposed Phoneme Concatenation Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These training sentences may be considered for resource limited devices. Therefore, [12] proposed new phoneme concatenative method for MTTS system. Their system is suitable for resource limited device because their phoneme speech database contained only 133 phonemes that can speech out for all Myanmar texts.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These kinds of consonant have half-sound of original one. In the previous method [12], some rules for schwa insertion are presented but this schwa vowel sound did not consider in the speech synthesis module. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed phoneme concatenation method that is extended the previous one.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper mainly focuses on building phoneme speech database and proposed extended phoneme concatenative method. Then, they are tested on the already developed phoneme based MTTS system [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this step, the segmeted speech wave files are stored in the Myanmar phoneme speech database. At first, there are only 133 phoneme speech sounds in [12] that did not consider half-sounds. Now, we consider this kind of sound so that in this database, there are 157 phoneme speech files by adding extra 24 minor consonants as shown in Table 3.…”

Section: Segment and Label Phonemementioning

confidence: 99%

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Phoneme Concatenation Method for Myanmar Speech Synthesis System

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This paper discusses the approach used to develop a Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis system for the Myanmar language. Concatenative method has been used to develop this TTS system using phoneme as the basic units for concatenation. In this proposed system, phoneme plays an important role so that Myanmar phoneme inventory is presented in detail. In Myanmar language, schwa is the only vowel that is allowed in a minor syllable or consonant that has half-sound of the original one. If these half sound can be handled, the TTS quality will be high. After analyzing the number of phoneme and half-sound consonant to be recorded, create the Myanmar phoneme speech database which contains total 157 phoneme speech sounds that can speech out for all Myanmar texts. These phonemes are fetched according to the result from the phonetic analysis modules and concatenated them by using proposed new phoneme concatenation algorithm. According to the experimental results, the system achieved the high level of intelligibility and acceptable level of naturalness. As the application area, it is intended for the resource limited device to use as language learning app and so on.

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“…Phoneme based Myanmar TTS system has been developed in [12]. In their paper, the syllable that has half sound did not consider.…”

Section: Proposed Phoneme Concatenation Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Segment and Label Phonemementioning

confidence: 99%