TTS System for Punjabi using Festival Framework

Sukhpreet Kaur Gill

TTS System for Punjabi using Festival Framework

Sukhpreet Kaur Gill

Abstract

Text to speech Generation is the process of converting the raw text into the speech output. This paper represents the development of Punjabi voice using Festvox tool and the Festival is used as engine to run that developed voice. The statistical parametric method of waveform generation is used. The phoneme is chosen as basic unit for speech synthesis. The corpus for Punjabi language is collected from newspaper and news channels. The recording is done in noise free environment

Keywords

Festvox, Statistical Parametric Method, Festival.

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