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Prosody has been widely used in many speech-related applications including speaker and word recognition, emotion and accent identification, topic and sentence segmentation, and text-to-speech applications. An important application we... more
The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effect of MultiFunk, a computer program designed to assist reading, on the reading and spelling proficiency of struggling readers. Fifty‐two below‐average readers and spellers, in grades 5,... more
In this paper, an optimized neural network modelling approach with genetic algorithm for text-to-speech system of Arabic language is adopted. The system employs Genetic Algorithm (GA) to perform the connection weights update. An Arabic... more
Artificial Intelligence has been in great use when it comes to day to day life. Computer science defines AI research as the study of brilliant agents. In almost any direction one turns today, some form of computer-based information... more
In concatenative Text-to-Speech, the size of the speech corpus is closely related to synthetic speech quality. In this paper, we describe our work on a new corpus-based Bell Labs' TTS system. This encompasses large acoustic... more
This paper describes ongoing research that is being conducted at the University of Algarve involving the design and utilization of information and communication technologies for special needed people. We present a virtual keyboard project... more
In the present world, the elderly and illiterate people find it difficult to fill a deposit or withdrawal form in a bank. They often require the help of literate people to fill the form. To solve this problem, we introduce an automatic... more
This paper presents a study of Sinhala syllable structure and an algorithm for identifying syllables in Sinhala words. After a thorough study of the Syllable structure and linguistic rules for syllabification of Sinhala words and a survey... more
This paper presents methodologies involved in text normalization and diphone preparation for Bangla Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis. A Concatenation based TTS system comprises basically two modules- one is natural language processing and... more
Telugu is one of the oldest and popular languages of India, spoken by more than 66 million people, especially in South India. Not much work has been reported on the development of optical character recognition (OCR) systems for Telugu... more
Due to its clarity and availability, Internet is broadly utilized in practically all the communication applications. In the recent times, number of utilization dependent on web have been created to make the communication as a more... more
In the current situation of technology development within the field of augmented reading and voice assistant systems development, many researchers are writing in this regard for the development of new and effective technologies. The voice... more
In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language using the open-source Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with components supporting front-end processing of the input... more
"El desarrollo del presente trabajo de Tesis se realizó con el objetivo de contribuir en la línea de investigación interesada en la generación de formas de interacción hombre-máquina por medio del uso de Agentes Conversacionales animados... more
According to statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 285 million people are visually impaired or blindness. Blind people generally have to rely on white canes, guide dogs, screen-reading software, magnifiers, and... more
Akan is the principal native language in Ghana. While the language has been the object of a number of linguistic studies, researchers in speech technology, in comparison, have not paid as much attention. With the goal of building a... more
Acoustic and articulatory properties of Ukrainian vowels are investigated in this study and a full set of relevant IPA notations are proposed. The notations are shown in the vowel diagram and the table. The results of the earlier acoustic... more
QR codes, developed by a Japanese company, have been around for over fifteen years. With the advent of smart and Web capable mobile devices, we witness a steady growth of interesting commercial applications using QR codes. The main... more
Gesture recognition is the technique which is used for the interaction between human and computer or it can be for any automation implementation purpose. In this paper, we have made use of the implemented concepts of basic gesture... more
This paper brings together the development of the first Text-to- Speech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the Festival framework and practical applications of it. Construction of a diphone database and implementation of the natural language... more
This paper describes about the work done in building a prototype text to speech system for Sanskrit. A basic prototype text-to-speech is built using a simplified Sanskrit phone set, and employing a unit selection technique, where... more
This research attempts to propose an approach to make decisions under uncertainty for designing a dialogue manager for Amharic spoken dialogue system, Amharic as under-resourced language. A prototype Amharic Spoken Dialogue System was... more
SPEAKER RECOGNATION SYSTEM (SRS)
La fonoterapia, que se basa en la mioterapia orofacial, constituiría un procedimiento donde se actúa sobre un músculo o grupo muscular, a través de ejercicios diversos como preparatorios, pasivos, asistidos o por medio de contracciones... more
This research focuses on three technologies; ASR, NLP and TTS, and their relationship with each other within digital conversational systems. It looks at different examples of systems that are currently available (2021), detailing and... more
In this paper, we describe the design and develop a database of Indonesian diphone synthesis using speech segment of recorded voice to be converted from text to speech and save it as audio file like WAV or MP3. In designing and develop a... more