An efficient speech generation method based on character and modifier of Bangla PDF Document

Author

Talukder, Kamrul Hasan ; Rahman, Md Mustaneer ; Ahmed, Toukir

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Eng. Discipline, Khulna Univ., Khulna, Bangladesh

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

102

Abstract

In this paper we present a method for Bangla speech generation from Bangla PDF document. Our main goal is to generate almost natural speech from Bangla PDF document. For this we have proposed a method which performs three major tasks. One is PDF to text conversion, then text to ASCII conversion, and then follows the character and modifier rules while reading text and finally speech generation from the concatenate sound files of text. We have analyzed the proposed method and the existing methods with respect to error rate of reading all the Bangla words and also the time complexity.

Keywords

natural language processing; speech processing; text analysis; Bangla PDF document; Bangla words; PDF-to-text conversion; character rules; concatenate; modifier rules; natural speech; sound files; speech generation; text-to-ASCII conversion; time complexity; Complexity theory; Computers; Databases; Engines; Error analysis; Performance analysis; Speech; Bangla; Character; Modifier; PDF; Speech; TTS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2010 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8496-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCITECHN.2010.5723836

Filename

5723836