9. TTS or Speech Synthesis
NLP
+
Speech Processing/Technology
Digital Signal Processing Module (DSP)
•
10. Motivation
• Since speech is such a natural medium for
communication, users' expectations of a
speech application tend to be extremely
high.
• Not only for blind, but also when our hands
and eyes are busy –
• People use airline information system,
banking, ordering, reservation system
used at a hotel,
11. 1st TTS System
• One of the first practical application of speech
synthesis was in 1936 when the U.K. Telephone
Company introduced a speaking clock.
• Speech synthesis as software or as an integral
part of the operating system was introduced in
the beginning of the 1980s on computers such
as Apple Macintosh.
12. • Myanmar Text To Speech
or
• Myanmar speech synthesizer
OR
• TTS Engine
13. TTS Synthesizer
• Generating natural sounding speech on
the fly, usually from text.
• A text to speech synthesizer is a computer
based system that should be able to read
any text.
• Speech should be intelligible and natural.
14. • Myanmar Text To Speech Synthesizer
Myanmar Text To Speech Engine Type License Copyright
1st
Version
31 May,2015 1st V Desktop Opensource IT Team, Myanmar
Christian Fellowship
of the Blind
2nd Version 30
November,
2015
2nd V Web
Service
Opensource
Starting Date : 1st December, 2014
19. Current Situation
• Development
– Speech Synthesizer with The Festival
• Language Resources
– Myanmar Lexicon
– Speech Database
• Research
– Prosodic Analysis in Burmese
– Grapheme to Phoneme
20. Future
• Related work
– OCR
– MT
– …
• advances related fundamental
technologies such as
– multi-lingual speech translation
– multi-lingual speech transcription
– multi- lingual information retrieval
