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dc.contributor.author Bandara, WMC
dc.contributor.author Lakmal, WMS
dc.contributor.author Liyanagama, TD
dc.contributor.author Bulathsinghala, SV
dc.contributor.author Dias, G
dc.contributor.author Jayasena, S
dc.contributor.editor Gunasekara, C
dc.contributor.editor Wijegunawardana, P
dc.contributor.editor Pavalanathan, U
dc.date.accessioned 2022-12-06T06:38:33Z
dc.date.available 2022-12-06T06:38:33Z
dc.date.issued 2010-09
dc.identifier.citation ****** en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/19689
dc.description.abstract This paper describes a new model of predicting prosodic phrase breaks in Sinhala language in order to improve the quality of the existing TTS Sinhala voices. In a Text To Speech (TTS) system, quality of the synthetic voice is mainly dependent on, how well its prosodic model is implemented. The prosodic model adjusts the phrasing and the pitch of the voice while applying suitable durations and tones for words and diphones. Out of these, phrasing and pitch of the voice carries much importance since appropriate phrase breaking helps to clearly understand the synthesis voice. In a real world scenario, when we speak a sentence, we automatically divide it to small segments and apply pauses at those breaks. Also the pitch of the voice gets lowered near a break and gets increased in the other segments automatically. But in a TTS system, we do not have that advantage and therefore need to be precised with the phrase breaks. Otherwise it will create wrong meanings as well as producing unnatural speech. Existing Sinhala TTS systems lacks proper prosody implementations and hence difficult to understand when it reads, especially long sentences. This issue can be overcome by applying a suitable phrase breaking technique. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Computer Science & Engineering Society c/o Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. en_US
dc.title New prosodic phrasing model for Sinhala language en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Computer Science and Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.year 2010 en_US
dc.identifier.conference CS & ES Conference 2010 en_US
dc.identifier.place Moratuwa. Sri Lanka en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 37-40 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the CS & ES Conference 2010 en_US


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