A novel intonation model to improve the quality of tamil text-to-speech synthesis system

The global growth of Information and Communication technologies has a greater impact towards the research focus on speech technologies. Especially visually impaired people, vocally challenged people can utilize speech technology enabled devices as it helps them as a lifeline. In the broad sense, Speech technology has two major applications, speech synthesis and speech recognition. Speech synthesis is a popular technique to produce synthetic speech given the input text, whereas speech recognition is the technique that understands human speech and can produce either text or speech as output.

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