Malay Text To Speech Synthesis System

As of version 5 2 marytts supports german british.

Malay text to speech synthesis system. Speech is one of the oldest and most natural means around the world and indeed nigeria there is growing inclination towards a complete overhaul of manual system for computing though there are certain aspects of life that are yet to be explored. Tien ping tan sang seong goh yen min khaw 2012. Yen min jasmina khaw tien ping tan preparation of madits corpus for malay dialect translation and speech synthesis system speech language and audio in multimedia workshop slam 2014 penang pp. Indeed speech synthesis is of important assisting human in various areas such as telephone speech application in cars public information systems education assistance tools email reading etc.

Sm bears some resemblance to arabic in its phonetic structure and this helped to ease the synthesis problem of sm using previous knowledge. In this paper we rst discuss the malay speech characteristics specically on malay phonological system and syllable structure. Markov model hmm based malay text to speech tts system. To our knowledge this is the rst report on the development of the hmm based speech synthesis system for the malay language.

Marytts is an open source multilingual text to speech synthesis platform written in java. It is now maintained by the multimodal speech processing group in the cluster of excellence mmci and dfki. Abstract this paper presents a rule based text to speech tts synthesis system for standard malay namely smatts. The use of phone database significantly decreases the amount of computer memory.

The system uses a modified version of a synthesis method that was previously used to synthesize arabic. This poor quality is resulted from the inability of traditional tts system to provide multiple choices of unit for generating more accurate synthesized speech. The system is all about the synthetic speech generation from a written text. A malay dialect translation and synthesis system.

It was originally developed as a collaborative project of dfki s language technology lab and the institute of phonetics at saarland university. Most of the current available malay tts systems are utilizing diphone concatenation that only support a single. The proposed system using sinusoidal method and some pre recorded wave files in generating speech for the system. The main problem with current malay text to speech tts synthesis system is the poor quality of the generated speech sound.