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Screen Readers for Linux and Windows – Concatenation Methods and Unit Selection based Marathi Text to Speech System

Author(s) -

Sangramsing Kayte,

Monica R. Mundada,

Charansing Kayte

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

international journal of computer applications

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0975-8887

DOI - 10.5120/ijca2015907192

Subject(s) - concatenation (mathematics) , marathi , computer science , speech recognition , syllable , mean opinion score , speech synthesis , selection (genetic algorithm) , the internet , word (group theory) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , world wide web , linguistics , arithmetic , mathematics , philosophy , metric (unit) , operations management , economics

The research paper briefs about the implementation of screen readers for Marathi in Windows and Linux platform using unrestricted domain Marathi Text To Speech with Indian English support. The application is an integration of MTTS with open source Screen readers NVDA and ORCA. MTTS is a syllable based unit selection concatenative system, built around open source festival engine. IE support is provided for the smooth navigation and handling the English words occurring while accessing internet and other applications. The TTS is a concatenative based system in which syllable is the highest unit for concatenation. The TTS output resembles natural human voice since it uses the original speech segments for concatenation. Testing has been done with normal and differently abled users. Tuning of the system for improving the user friendliness has been done based on the feedback from the DA The system gets a Mean Opinion Score of 86.4% when evaluated by a group of DA.

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