Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System

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dc.contributor.authorWeerasinghe, A.R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWasala, R.A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGamage, K.N.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-13T08:52:49Z
dc.date.available2014-11-13T08:52:49Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis paper brings together the development of the first Text-to-Speech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the Festival framework and practical applications of it. Construction of a diphone database and implementation of the natural language processing modules are described. The paper also presents the development methodology of direct Sinhala Unicode text input by rewriting Letter-to-Sound rules in Festival's context sensitive rule format and the implementation of Sinhala syllabification algorithm. A Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) was conducted to evaluate the intelligibility of the synthesized speech and yielded a score of 71.5% for the TTS system described.en_US
dc.identifier.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/2879
dc.publisherLecture Notes in Computer Science/ IJCNLP: International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processingen_US
dc.subjectAlgorithms
dc.subjectSyllabication
dc.subjectSinhalese language, Sri Lanka
dc.titleFestival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System
dc.typeArticleen_US

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