Telugu Text to Speech System for Mobile based Systems

Speech is the important mode of communication and is the current research topic. The concentration is mostly focused on synthesis and analyzing part.Apart of synthesizing, text to speech system is developed.Speech synthesis is an artificial production of human speech.A text to speech system (TTS) is to convert an arbitrary text into speech.In India different languages have been spoken each being the mother tongue of tens of millions of people.In this paper,the text to speech system is primarily developed for Telugu, a Dravidian language predominantly spoken in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.The important qualities expected from this system are naturalness and intelligibility.Telugu TTS can be developed using other synthesis methods like articulatory synthesis,formant synthesis and concatenative synthesis.This paper describes a development of a Telugu text to speech system using concatenative synthesis method on mobile based system OMAP 3530 (ARM Cortex A-8 core) in Linux.