Thai syllable analysis for rule-based text to speech system

Lalita Narupiyakul; Booncharoen Sirinaovakul; Nick Cercone

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-258-5-139

Thai syllable analysis for rule-based text to speech system

Lalita Narupiyakul
, Booncharoen Sirinaovakul
, Nick Cercone

Department of Computer Engineering

K. Mongkut's Univ. Technol. Thonburi
York University

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Abstract

TTS system initially transforms text input into a sequence of sound symbols. The complexity of Thai requires about several hundred of rules including main and specific rules to derive most pronunciations for the rule-based approach. Our proposed rule-based system is based on the syllable structure analysis. To increase the quality of TTS, an exception dictionary to cover anomalous pronunciations and using rule reference engine to determine sentence structure are included in the system. The phonetic generation and speech generation by mapping table are sequential steps to transform a set of phonetic symbols to speech waveform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Approaches to Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	139-153
Number of pages	15
Volume	253
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614992585
ISBN (Print)	9781614992578
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-258-5-139
Publication status	Published - 16 Jul 2013

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Text-to-speech
Thai speech synthesis
Thai syllable analysis

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