The Fluency of Oral Reading with Natural Reader Software

Virdaus, Varia Virdania; Rifai, S.Pd.

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“…The top 5 PTS programs available today are: Balabolka (Andipurnama, Wiguna, Susetyo, & Novianti, 2022;Pramono, 2022), NaturalReader (Fitria, 2022;Virdaus & Rifa'i, 2021), Lecteur de rêves vocal (Fichten et al, 2022;Fitria, 2022)., Amazon Polly (Carvalho Afonso, Almeida, Beça, Silva, & Covalenco, 2022;Chan, Ghosh, Rastrow, & Hoffmeister, 2023) and Speechify (Amin, 2022;Kiseleva & Novikov, 2023). Among the applications of text-to-speech in the field of telecommunications services (Sorin et al, 1995), we can mention an important aspect of the applications of text-to-speech synthesis concerns services for people with disabilities.…”

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Symmetric Technique of Formant Transitions Generation for Using in Speech Synthesis of Arabic Language

Chegrani,

Guerti,

Boudraa

2024

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The objective of this work is the elaboration of a vocal communication aid system for the blind in the Arab world, which is at the same time used as a system for learning Arabic for them or for non-native speakers. This system is a result of the development of a speech synthesizer for the Arabic language which is based on the concatenative synthesis method (end-to-end speech data collection (Eskenazi, Levow, Meng, Parent, & Suendermann, 2013)) of sub-syllable sound units typically stored in digital wave format (Vaseghi, 2008), obtained using software called PRAAT (Gold, Morgan, & Ellis, 2011; Pleva, Juhár, & Thiessen, 2015)) from a natural language corpus (Chou, Tseng, & Lee, 2002). The treatments in this study took place in different phases (العماري, 2021). Text analysis techniques are responsible for converting incoming text into a linguistic representation that encodes information about how the input text should be pronounced (Shiga, Ni, Tachibana, & Okamoto, 2020). The method used to produce missing phonetic units in syllable counts (CV) is to use mathematical symmetry from (VC), which as a result obtained the construction of a phonetic lexicon based on a reduced number of phonemes, which is 124 units; And improving the patterns resulting from inserting formula transitions into (VC) generated from their counterpart (CV) using this feature. Finally, the implications of this after including the linear smoothing stage (Dutoit, 1994) are to obtain speech outputs that resemble natural speech as much as possible without noise (Millstein, 2020), continuous, and intelligible at different levels of language that are able to be employed in synthesising intelligible speech, for blind individuals in the Arab community, noting that this method is for all languages of the world in terms of producing the quality of speech.

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Symmetric Technique of Formant Transitions Generation for Using in Speech Synthesis of Arabic Language

Chegrani,

Guerti,

Boudraa

2024

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“…The top 5 PTS programs available today include Balabolka (Andipurnama, Wiguna, Susetyo, & Novianti, 2022;Pramono, 2022), NaturalReader (Fitria, 2022;Virdaus & Rifa'i, 2021), Lecteur de Réves Vocal (Fichten et al, 2022;Fitria, 2022), Amazon Polly (Carvalho Afonso, Almeida, Beça, Silva, & Covalenco, 2022;Chan, Ghosh, Rastrow, & Hoffmeister, 2023) and Speechify (Amin, 2022;Kiseleva & Novikov, 2023). Among the applications of text-to-speech in the field of telecommunications services (Sorin et al, 1995), we can mention an important aspect of the applications of text-to-speech synthesis concerning services for people with disabilities.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Symmetric Technique of Formant Transition Generation for Use in Speech Synthesis in the Arabic

Chegrani,

Guerti,

Boudraa

2024

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The objective of this work is to elaborate on a vocal communication aid system for blind individuals in the Arab world, which is also used as a system for learning Arabic for both individuals and nonnative speakers. This system is a result of the development of a speech synthesizer for the Arabic language, which is based on the concatenative synthesis method (end-to-end speech data collection (Eskenazi, Levow, Meng, Parent, & Suendermann, 2013)) of subsyllable sound units typically stored in digital wave format (Vaseghi, 2008), obtained using software called PRAAT (Gold, Morgan, & Ellis, 2011; Pleva, Juhár, & Thiessen, 2015)) from a natural language corpus (Chou, Tseng, & Lee, 2002). The treatments in this study took place in different phases (العماري, 2021). Text analysis techniques are responsible for converting incoming text into a linguistic representation that encodes information about how the input text should be pronounced (Shiga, Ni, Tachibana, & Okamoto, 2020). The method used to produce missing phonetic units in syllable counts (CVs) is to use mathematical symmetry from VCs, which results in the construction of a phonetic lexicon based on a reduced number of phonemes, which is 124, and improve the patterns resulting from inserting formula transitions into VCs generated from their counterpart (CVs) using this feature. Finally, after including the linear smoothing stage (Dutoit, 1994), speech outputs that resemble natural speech as much as possible without noise are obtained (Millstein, 2020); these outputs can be continuous and intelligible at different levels of language that can be employed in synthesizing intelligible speech for blind individuals in the Arab community, noting that this method is useful for all languages of the world in terms of producing the quality of speech.

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“…Reading is a difficult subject for many students. Having good oral reading skills is very important (Virdaus & Rifa'i, 2021). In fact, it's part of the skill that every student should acquire.…”

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Teaching Reading Using PQRST Method with Power Point Media

Huda

2022

JDR

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The problem with student reading comprehension is that it is difficult to translate reading comprehension sentences, as English contains multiple tenses as well as vocabulary. Many students often find it difficult due to poor grammatical structure and vocabulary. Teaching methods are usually not very interesting for students. They say the instructor uses the traditional method (GTM). One alternative solution to this problem is PQRST with PowerPoint media. This method has been studied to see if it works effectively for learning to read. This study adopted a quasi-experimental procedure using a non-randomized pre-test and post-test design. As a result, it was found that the PQRST method using PowerPoint media is an effective method for reading comprehension instruction because it exhibits better reading comprehension than the conventional method.Keywords: teaching reading, PQRST, PowerPoint

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The Fluency of Oral Reading with Natural Reader Software

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Symmetric Technique of Formant Transitions Generation for Using in Speech Synthesis of Arabic Language

Symmetric Technique of Formant Transitions Generation for Using in Speech Synthesis of Arabic Language

The Symmetric Technique of Formant Transition Generation for Use in Speech Synthesis in the Arabic

Teaching Reading Using PQRST Method with Power Point Media

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