The text to speech technology has achieved significant progress during the past decade and
is an active area of research and development in providing different human–computer …

In this paper, we introduce a system for Bangla digit automatic speech recognition (ASR).
Though Bangla is one of the largely spoken languages in the world, only a few works on …

This paper describes the development procedure of three different Bangla read speech
corpora which can be used for phonetic research and develo** speech applications …

This paper proposes a method for tuning the weights of unit selection cost functions in
syllable based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. In this work, unit selection cost …

Designing text-to-speech systems capable of producing natural sounding speech segments
in different Indian languages is a challenging and ongoing problem. Due to the large …

Speaker-specific characteristics play an important role on the performance of Bangla (widely
used as Bengali) automatic speech recognition (ASR). Gender factor shows adverse effect …

This paper describes the efforts of a consortium consisting of five institutions in India to build
TTS systems in six Indian languages–Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi and Malayalam …

In this paper, we present the concatenative text-to-speech system and discuss the issues
relevant to the development of a Marathi speech synthesizer using different choice of units …

Automatic speech segmentation is a main step in speech signal production and analysis
process. Great advancement in speech synthesis has already been made using …

Visually impaired people are dependent solely on Braille books & audio recordings
provided by NGOs. Owing to many constraints in above two approaches blind people can't …