Text to Speech System: An Aid to Visually and Vocally Impaired - Softcover

Gupta, Shruti; Bhatia, Parteek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659288527 ISBN 13: 9783659288524

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Speech and spoken words have always played a big role in the individual and collective lives of the people. Speech represents the spoken form of a language and is also one of the important means of communication.Synthetic speech may be used in several applications like telecommunications services, language education, aid to handicapped persons, fundamental and applied research etc. TTS has to face many challenges during the process of conversion of text to speech. The most important qualities expected from speech synthesis system are naturalness and intelligibility. Wars have been won, peace agreements have been made because of the magical words of a few who knew how to give life to their words.

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About the Author

Shruti Gupta has completed her Master’s of Engineering in Computer Science at Thapar University, Patiala, India in June,2012. She has received her Bacher’s of Engineering degree from Roorkee Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India in the year 2009. Currently working on a Project sponsored by ISRO at IIT Roorkee, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659288527
• ISBN 13: 9783659288524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88