Newsreader Application for Blind People using Text to Speech Synthesis

Communicating Text Structure to Blind People with Text-to-Speech

This paper presents the results of an experiment conducted with nine blind subjects for the evaluation of two audio restitution methods for headings, using Text-To-Speech. We used specialized audio and two voices to demarcate headings. This work is part of a research project which focuses on structural information accessibility for the blind in digital documents.

Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Whispered Speech

Whispering is a modality of speech that is defined as an unvoiced mode of phonation in which the vocal cords do not vibrate, but are adducted sufficiently to create audible turbulence as the speaker exhales during speech [1]. Whispered speech production is found in most world languages and is considered to be one of linguistic universals [2]. The social role of whispering is to communicate info...

Text-to-Speech Synthesis using Phoneme Concatenation

We proposed Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system based on phonetic concatenation for unrestricted input text. The input text is first converted into phonetic transcription using Letter-to-Sound rules. For synthesis of a new speech, TTS system selects the recorded phoneme units (PUs) from database and modifies the duration according to the rule based on spelling using Time Domain Pitch Synchron...

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Mandarin Chinese

A Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesizer is a computer-based system that is able to automatically read text aloud, regardless whether the text is introduced by computer input stream or a scanned input that is submitted to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine. TTS synthesis can be used in many areas, such as telecommunication services, language education, vocal monitoring, multimedia, and as ...