Kannada text to speech conversion: A novel approach

Abstract

Conversion of linguistic scripts to speech will help in improving the lives of people who are unable to read. According to literature survey conversion of English text to speech has been attempted by several researchers, however, there is less research in speech synthesis of local languages. In this paper, the authors propose an algorithm to translate Kannada language text to speech. Here, direct concatenation of speech coefficients extracted from prerecorded voice is used for conversion. The proposed algorithm is also compared with another speech synthesizer which is widely used, to evaluate its performance.