Text-to-Speech Mobile Application for Maithili Language
| Author(s) | : | Amit Kumar Jha, Piyush Pratap Singh |
| Institution | : | Center for Information and Language Engineering Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwvidyalaya, Wardha, Maharashtra 442001, India |
| Published In | : | Vol. 7, Issue 7 — July 2020 |
| Page No. | : | 117-121 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
This paper discusses development of Text-to-Speech (TTS) mobile application for Maithili Language.Maithili is one of the twenty-two languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. This TTS mobileapplication is an Android based application which is able to convert Maithili text to its correspondence speech form.This application is developed on Android studio 3.0. This application supports Devanagari script as inputting the text.The nature of Maithili language is syllabic similar to other Indo-Aryan languages so syllable is taken as the basic unitfor concatenative method. For enhancing the naturalness of the synthesized voice, user can control the pitch and speedusing Seek Bar at the time of voice generation. Subjective and Objective evaluation conducted by 100 native speakers. Aquestionnaire has been created to evaluate the Maithili text-to-speech system. Naturalness test, Comprehensibility test,Productivity test conducted for testing the application and summary of results are good. For this evaluation MeanOpinion Score (MOS) is used. This is the first TTS mobile application for Maithili Language.
Amit Kumar Jha, Piyush Pratap Singh, “Text-to-Speech Mobile Application for Maithili Language”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 7, Issue 7, pp. 117-121, July 2020.
