Text Normalization and Unit Selection for a Memory Based Non Uniform Unit Selection TTS in Malayalam

摘要

Text to speech synthesis system intended for any language, converts the given text in that language to corresponding speech. The major challenge in TTS system is to generate artificial speech which appears to be natural and intelligible. This is essential for visually impaired people to properly understand and comprehend the generated speech. This paper discuss about text normalization and unit selection for a memory based non-uniform unit selection concatenative speech synthesizer for Malayalam language.