I.J. Information Engineering and Electronic Business, 2019, 2, 1-9 Published Online March 2019 in MECS (http://www.mecs-press.org/) DOI: 10.5815/ijieeb.2019.02.01 Text to Speech Synthesis for Bangla Language Khandaker Mamun Ahmed Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Email:
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[email protected] B M Mainul Hossain Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh Email:
[email protected] Received: 13 September 2018; Accepted: 14 December 2018; Published: 08 March 2019 Abstract—Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a rapidly A TTS system converts natural language text into growing field of research. Speech synthesis systems are speech and then, a computer system able to read text applicable to several areas such as robotics, education and aloud. A speech synthesizer converts written text to a embedded systems. The implementation of such TTS phonemic representation and then converts the phonemic system increases the correctness and efficiency of an representation to waveforms which can be output as application. Though Bangla is the seventh most spoken sound. language all over the world, uses of TTS system in There are several ways to create synthesized speech. applications are difficult to find for Bangla language Among them, concatenative synthesis and formant because of lacking simplicity and lightweightness in TTS synthesis are very popular. Concatenative synthesis is systems. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a simple based on concatenating pre-recorded speech of phonemes, and lightweight TTS system for Bangla language.