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9th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT'06)
pp. 129-132
Duration Analysis for Malayalam Text-To-Speech Systems
Deepa P. Gopinath, College of Engineering, Trivandrum
J. Divya Sree, College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Reshmi Mathew, College of Engineering, Trivandrum
S.J. Rekhila, College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Achuthsankar S. Nair, University of Kerala
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Naturalness can be achieved in a Text-To-Speech
(TTS) by incorporating prosodic features which
include duration of basic units, intonation patterns
and stress. This paper presents the preliminary
duration analysis required for a speech synthesis
system for Malayalam, one among the 17 languages
spoken in India. The statistical analysis of the duration
of phonemes has yielded results, which can effectively
be used for developing a duration model for the
language. The durational patterns of vowels and
consonants are compared. The study shows that, it is
the duration of vowels that get significantly modified
and hence duration modelling has to focus primarily
on vowels. For vowels, the positional factors have
more effect on duration than the contextual factors.
The results obtained in this study can simplify a rather
complex task of framing rules for duration variation.
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Citation:
Deepa P. Gopinath, J. Divya Sree, Reshmi Mathew, S.J. Rekhila, Achuthsankar S. Nair,
"Duration Analysis for Malayalam Text-To-Speech Systems,"
icit,
pp. 129-132,
9th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT'06),
2006
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