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dc.contributor.author Bandara, WMC
dc.contributor.author Lakmal, VMS
dc.contributor.author Liyanagama, TD
dc.contributor.author Bulathsinghala, SV
dc.contributor.author Dias, G
dc.contributor.author Jayasena, S
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-21T02:12:46Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-21T02:12:46Z
dc.date.issued 2010
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/8205
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 ITS 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 gels increased in the other segments automatically. But in a ITS 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.
dc.language en
dc.title A New prosodic phrasing model for sinhala language
dc.type Conference-Extended-Abstract
dc.identifier.year 2010
dc.identifier.conference Research for Industry
dc.identifier.place Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 91-94
dc.identifier.proceeding 16th Annual symposium on Research and Industry


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