Abstract:
Speech synthesis or commonly known as text-to-speech system converts text input
into speech output that is production of speech or voice in an artificial manner.
Speech Synthesis has been the crucial games changer for such form of computer to
human communication.
Speech is the most effective way of communication amongst human beings. Speech
has fundamentally impacted on the evolution of human civilization based on the
exchange of idea.
The goal of expressive speech synthesis is to produce speech that is able to express
various kinds emotions, speaking styles and attitudes.
This research proposed a solution for generated expressive speech synthesis using
neural text to speech approach for Tamil, which is considered as a low resource
language. The solution is a web-based platform used to create audio content that can
be distributed across platforms opening ways to democratise the consumption of the
audio content in Tamil.
The research open pathways to different other application of the neural speech based
such speech to speech translation. The system also implements such an application
based on a cascading flow.
