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Developing a Child Friendly Text-to-Speech System
Joint Authors
Source
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Issue
Vol. 2008, Issue 2008 (31 Dec. 2008), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2008-09-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper discusses the implementation details of a child friendly, good quality, English text-to-speech (TTS) system that is phoneme-based, concatenative, easy to set up and use with little memory.
Direct waveform concatenation and linear prediction coding (LPC) are used.
Most existing TTS systems are unit-selection based, which use standard speech databases available in neutral adult voices.
Here reduced memory is achieved by the concatenation of phonemes and by replacing phonetic wave files with their LPC coefficients.
Linguistic analysis was used to reduce the algorithmic complexity instead of signal processing techniques.
Sufficient degree of customization and generalization catering to the needs of the child user had been included through the provision for vocabulary and voice selection to suit the requisites of the child.
Prosody had also been incorporated.
This inexpensive TTS system was implemented in MATLAB, with the synthesis presented by means of a graphical user interface (GUI), thus making it child friendly.
This can be used not only as an interesting language learning aid for the normal child but it also serves as a speech aid to the vocally disabled child.
The quality of the synthesized speech was evaluated using the mean opinion score (MOS).
American Psychological Association (APA)
Jacob, Agnes& Mythili, P.. 2008. Developing a Child Friendly Text-to-Speech System. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction،Vol. 2008, no. 2008, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-483959
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Jacob, Agnes& Mythili, P.. Developing a Child Friendly Text-to-Speech System. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction No. 2008 (2008), pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-483959
American Medical Association (AMA)
Jacob, Agnes& Mythili, P.. Developing a Child Friendly Text-to-Speech System. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. 2008. Vol. 2008, no. 2008, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-483959
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-483959