Development of a Kiswahili Text-to-Speech System based on Tacotron 2 and Wave Net Vocoder
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چکیده
Text-to-Speech (TTS) system converts an input text into a synthetic speech output. The paper provides detailed description of developing Kiswahili TTS using Tacotron 2 architecture and WaveNet vocoder. will help visually impaired persons to learn, assist with communication disorders, provide source in Voice Alarm Public Address equipments. is sequence-to-sequence model for building systems. consists three steps: encoder, decoder, encoder step the sequence characters. decoder predicts Mel-spectrograms each generated character sequence. Finally, vocoder transforms waveforms. developed based on obtained mean opinion score (MOS) 4.05. shows that by comparable human speech. implementation available link below https://github.com/Rono8/kiswahili_tts
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRG international journal of electrical and electronics engineering
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2348-8379', '2349-9176']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14445/23488379/ijeee-v10i2p107