Speech Synthesis for Urdu Vowels Using Hlsyn
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This paper tries to give the brief overview of different kinds of speech synthesis systems (formant, concatenative and articulatory). General steps, which are involved in the synthesis, are discussed. Moreover, the Klatt synthesizer is also discussed in some detail. This paper also includes the synthesis of Urdu oral vowels (, , æ, , i, e, , o, , , ) using High Level synthesizer (HLSyn). Results show that HLSyn is good at synthesizing the Urdu oral vowels, but it does not give the control over bandwidth and intensity, which is a hurdle to archive natural sound.
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