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...

Machine transliteration is an emerging and a very important research area in the field of machine translation. While the translation system finds the same meaning word/sentence in another language, the transliteration helps us to pronounce them. This paper describes the process of transliteration from English to Punjabi language using a rule based approach. Both source grapheme and phonetic inf...

n M In this paper we present a hybrid multilayer perceptron (MLP)/hidde arkov model (HMM) speaker-independent continuous-speech recognib tion system, in which the advantages of both approaches are combined y using MLPs to estimate the state-dependent observation probabilities p of an HMM. New MLP architectures and training procedures are resented which allow the modeling of multiple distributio...

Multiple agents, equipped with a feature-based phonetic model and a connectionist cognitive model, interact via the naming game , with lexicon formation and change as emergent properties of this complex adaptive system. We present a new description of the naming game, situating it as a general, implementation-independent paradigm. Our addition of richer phonetic and cognitive models provides th...

Recent advances in SONIC Italian children’s speech recognition will be described. This work, completing a previous one developed in the past, was conducted with the specific goals of integrating the newly trained children’s speech recognition models into the Italian version of the Colorado Literacy Tutor platform. Specifically, children’s speech recognition research for Italian was conducted us...

We describe an approach to grapheme to phoneme conver sion which is both language independent and data oriented Given a set of examples spelling words with their associated phonetic representation in a language a grapheme to phoneme conversion system is automatically pro duced for that language which takes as its input the spelling of words and produces as its output the phonetic transcription ...

believe in armageddon is one of the tree principal rules of islam, that all muslims in different branches believe in it. the holy quran in many parts, talks in believing in god, besides believing in armageddon. and try to show sights of armageddon in about 80 chapters. sound reviewing plays an important role in stylistic analyses, and is the first point in literature reviews. as the sound is th...

A comparison of two pitch detection algorithms using frequency domain analysis is presented. The algorithm showing the best results based on a perfomance evaluation done by a phonetician will be selected for use in an automatic speech recogni tion (ASR-) system based on the acoustic phonetic approach using knowledge-bases with an expert system. The first algori thm is the Seneff pi tch detectio...

This paper examines some methodological and empirical issues concerning phonetic detail and phonetic variability and the work they accomplish in everyday talk-in-interaction. By considering the phonetic and sequential design of a variety of conversational practices I show that phonetic aspects of language should in the first instance be understood as shaped by interactional considerations. I ar...