Automatic Continuous Speech Segmentation to Improve Tamil TexttoSpeech Synthesis

Emerging growth of information and communication technologies has influenced the research trends to focus on speech technologies. This paper we have investigated the development of automatic Tamil speech segmentation system which would act as test bed as well as foundation for several speech applications involving Tamil language. This study proposes an algorithm for automatic segmentation of Tamil voiced speech. The calculations of absolute energy and zero crossing rates are used to process speech samples to accomplish the segmentation. The Algorithm are written and compiled using Matlab.