This document provides an outline and details of a student internship project on text-to-speech conversion using the Python programming language. The project was conducted at iPEC Solutions, which provides AI training and services. The student designed a text-to-speech system using tools including Praat, Audacity, and WaveSurfer. The system converts text to speech by extracting phonetic components, matching them to inventory items, and generating acoustic signals for output. The project aimed to help those with communication difficulties through improved accessibility of text-to-speech technology.

1. CITY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT:- ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION
INTERNSHIP TITLE
DATA SCIENCE
PROJECT TITLE
TEXT TO SPEECH CONVERSION USING PYTHON LANGUAGE
BY,
VISHWAS D V (1CE19EC010)

2. OUTLINE
 COMPANY PROFILE
 ABSTRACT
 INTRODUCTION
 COMPONENTS USED
 BLOCK DIAGRAM
 FLOW CHART
 PROJECT
 CONCLUSION
 PROS & CONS
 REFERENCE

3. COMPANY PROFILE
 iPEC Solutions is a service-oriented organization in Information
Technology (IT) domain, founded with the aim to create significant
space into IT Training & Consulting, Managed IT Services & Tech
Transformation.
 Our primary objective is to provide Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled
solutions and services to organizations and individuals.
 The training division of iPEC Solutions is located in south Bangalore.
This division has successfully trained 1000+ students last year in
emerging technologies such as Data Science, Business Analytics,
Machine Learning, Conversational Ai, Python Programming, and
Artificial Intelligence etc.
 The trainers are highly qualified professionals with over ten years of
experience in IT sector.

4.  iPEC Solutions started with an aim to bridge the gap between
demand and supply for technically skilled workforce, by
providing new age courses related to Industry 4.0 technology.
 These programmes help in the development of new talents, and
inventive thinking for both existing and future jobs.
 Our name "iPEC" is an inspiring synergy of four words:
Innovative, Professional, Engineering, Consultant.
 By uniting these words, we emphasize in order to provide a
tailored solution to our customers, we apply innovation and
scientific principles.

5. ABSTRACT
 Speech is one of the oldest and most natural means of
information exchange between human.
 Over the years, Attempts have been made to develop vocally
interactive computers to realise voice/speech synthesis.
Obviously such an interface would yield great benefits.
 Text-To-Speech Synthesis is a Technology that provides a
means of converting written text from a descriptive form to a
spoken language that is easily understandable by the end user
(Basically in English Language).
 It runs on JAVA platform, and the methodology used was
Object Oriented Analysis and Development Methodology.

6. INTRODUCTION
 Voice/speech synthesis is a field of computer science that deals
with designing computer systems that synthesize written text.
 It is a technology that allows a computer to convert a written text
into speech via a microphone or telephone. As an emerging
technology, not all developers are familiar with speech technology.
 While the basic functions of both speech synthesis and speech
recognition takes only minutes to understand, there are subtle and
powerful capabilities provided by computerized speech that
developers will want to understand and utilize.
 The basic idea of text-to-speech (TTS) technology is to convert
written input to spoken output by generating synthetic speech.

7.  Text to Speech Synthesis Defined:

8. SOFTWARE USED
 PRAAT: Praat is a free computer software package for speech
analysis in phonetics. It was designed, and continues to be
developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of
Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems,
including various versions of Unix, Linux, Mac and Microsoft
Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10).
 Praat offers the possibility to record mono and stereo sounds and to
edit and analyse sounds regarding intensity, pitch height, duration or
formants.
 Furthermore, so called TextGrid Objects can be created
In order to transcribe and annotate sound objects.

9. AUDACITY:
 Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for
Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface
is translated into many languages.
 You can use audacity to:
 Record live audio.
 Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
 Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
 Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis sound files.
 AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA, Opus and other formats supported using
optional libraries.
 Numerous effects including change the speed, pitch or tempo of a
recording.

10. WAVESURFER:
 WaveSurfer is an audio editor widely used for studies of acoustic
phonetics.
 It is a simple but fairly powerful program for interactive display of sound
pressure waveforms, spectral sections, spectrograms, pitch tracks and
transcriptions.
 It can read and write a number of transcription file formats used in
industrial speech research including TIMIT.
 WaveSurfer is free software, distributed under a permissive free
software licence.

11. BLOCK DIAGRAM

12. FLOW CHART

13. PROJECT:
 A speech synthesis system is by definition a system, which produces synthetic
speech. It is implicitly clear, that this involves some sort of input. What is not
clear is the type of this input.
 If the input is plain text, which does not contain additional phonetic and/or
phonological information the system may be called a text-to-speech (TTS)
system.
 Continuous speech is a set of complicated audio signals which makes producing
them artificially difficult.
 Speech signals are usually considered as voiced or unvoiced, but in some
cases they are something between these two. Voiced sounds consist of
fundamental frequency (F0) and its harmonic components produced by vocal
cords (vocal folds).
 The airflow is forced through a vocal tract constriction which can occur in several
places between glottis and mouth.

14.  The application of synthetic speech is expanding fast whilst the quality
of TTS systems is also increasing steadily.
 Speech synthesis systems are also becoming more affordable for
common customers, making these systems suitable for everyday use.
 For example, better availability of TTS systems may increase
employability for people with communication difficulties.
 Applications for the Blind.
 . Applications for the Deafened and Vocally Handicapped
 Applications for Telecommunications and Multimedia.

15. Representation and Analysis of Speech Signals
 Continuous speech is a set of complicated audio signals which makes producing
them artificially difficult.
 Speech signals are usually considered as voiced or unvoiced, but in some cases
they are something between these two.
 Voiced sounds consist of fundamental frequency (F0) and its harmonic
components produced by vocal cords (vocal folds).
 The airflow is forced through a vocal tract constriction which can occur in several
places between glottis and mouth.
 Some sounds are produced with complete stoppage of airflow followed by a
sudden release, producing an impulsive turbulent excitation often followed by a
more protracted turbulent excitation (Allen et al., 1987).

16. Applications of Speech Synthesis
 The application of synthetic speech is expanding fast whilst the quality
of TTS systems is also increasing steadily.
 Speech synthesis systems are also becoming more affordable for
common customers, making these systems suitable for everyday use.
 For example, better availability of TTS systems may increase
employability for people with communication difficulties.
 Other Applications and Future Directions (e.g. Human-Machine
Interaction)
 Applications for Telecommunications and Multimedia.

17. Speech Synthesis Module
 The TTS system converts an arbitrary ASCII text to speech.
 The first step involves extracting the phonetic components of the message,
and we obtain a string of symbols representing sound-units (phonemes or
allophones), boundaries between words, phrases and sentences along with a
set of prosody markers (indicating the speed, the intonation etc.).
 The second step consists of finding the match between the sequence of
symbols and appropriate items stored in the phonetic inventory and binding
them together to form the acoustic signal for the voice output device.

18. Choice of Speech Engine and Programming Language
 The speech engine used in this new system was the FreeTTS speech
engine.
 FreeTTS was used because it is programmed using JAVA (the backbone
programming language of this designed TTS system).
 It also supports SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface) which
is in synchronism with the JSAPI (Java Speech Application Programming
Interface). JSAPI was also the standardized interface used in the new
system.
 FreeTTS includes an engine for the vocal synthesis that supports a certain
number of voices (male and female) at different frequencies.
 It is recommended to use JSAPI to interface with FreeTTS because JSAPI
interface provides the best methods of controlling and using FreeTTS.

19. CONCLUSION:
 Synthesizing text is a high technology advancement and artificial formation of
speech given a text to be spoken.
 With Text-to-Speech synthesis, we can actually mediate and fill in the lacuna
provided by not fully exploiting the capabilities of some handicapped
individuals.
 It's never been so easy to use a text-to-speech program, as just one click and
your computer will speak any text aloud in a clear, natural sounding voice.
 This training can come in handy with proper tutor on how to handle JSML
language and how to use it to annotate text for the proper output and
emphasis.

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