*Prof. Vasu Renganathan* <http://plc.sas.upenn.edu/people/faculty/vasurenganathan>, Univ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, has released his *Text to Speech for Tamil* language as Open source.
Get the source at : https://github.com/vasurenganathan/tamil-tts See in action: http://www.thetamillanguage.com/tamilnlp/speak/ http://www.thetamillanguage.com/tamilnlp/speak/listentome.html http://www.thetamillanguage.com/tamilnlp/speak/url_talk.php?url= It is written in php. There are many open source TTS systems available as espeak, Festival, CMU Sphinx etc. But they work fine for English only. A new system is needed for Tamil. Myself and my brother Arulalan are trying to build a TTS system using python. He wrote script to convert tamil text to IPA. http://tuxcoder.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/release-txt2ipa-converter-v0-1/ https://github.com/arulalant/txt2ipa The next step is to record audio for each symbol and play with python. In the meantime, the TTS by Vasu gives a great enlightenment on text and sound processing,a s it has all the sound files and code to process text, map to sound files and stitch as a word etc. We will port it to python soon. This is not a very perfect TTS. Many things have to be improved. - There is little gap between letters. - Need few more gap between sentences. - Need more voices. We can add all these features as we have the source now. Please check the code and explore a how TTS works. Reply here if you are interested in improving Tamil TTS System. Thanks. Thanks for prof.vasu for open sourcing his nice works. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge
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