This paper elucidates a practical solution to an Indian accented English text to speech synthesizing system. The paper covers the complete procedure to generate the speech signal of the text, in Indian accented voice. The technique described considers the various prosodic features that need to be incorporated into the synthesized speech to make it appear natural and in the way an Indian speaks....

The following three speech coders are implemented for a bitrate of 9.6 kbitsfs 1) Sub-band coder, 2) Residual Excited Linear Predictive (RELP) coder, and 3) Multi-Pulse Excited linear predictive (MPE) coder. Performance of these coders is evaluated for speech corrupted by additive white noise. Evaluation of speech coders is done both subjectively and objectively. The MPE coder is found to give ...

In recent times, social media sites such as Twitter have been extensively used for debating politics and public policies. These debates span millions of tweets and numerous topics of public importance. Thus, it is imperative that this vast trove of data is tapped in order to gain insights into public opinion especially on hotly contested issues such as abortion, gun reforms etc. Thus, in our wo...