TITLE:
Resources for Development of Hindi Speech Synthesis System: An Overview
AUTHORS:
Archana Balyan
KEYWORDS:
Speech, Database, Corpora, Lexicon, Speech Synthesis, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.7 No.6,
June
19,
2017
ABSTRACT: Most of the information in digital world is accessible to few who can read or understand a particular language. The speech corpus acquisition is an essential part of all spoken technology systems. The quality and the volume of speech data in corpus directly affect the accuracy of the system. However, there are a lot of scopes to develop speech technology system using Hindi language which is spoken primarily in India. To achieve such an ambitious goal, the collection of standard database is a prerequisite. This paper summarizes the Hindi corpus and lexical resources being developed by various organizations across the country.