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Author: search.filters.author.Pulasinghe, KSubject: search.filters.subject.Building Voices

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    Step-by-Step Process of Building Voices for Under Resourced Languages using MARY TTS Platform
    (IEEE, 2022-12-09) Senarathna, M; Pulasinghe, K; Reyal, S
    This paper presents a comprehensive guide for creating synthetic voices to support under resourced languages for the MaryTTS platform. Although researchers have extensively contributed in the domain of speech synthesis, the lack of a thorough documentation hinders the voice building process for languages not yet supported by MaryTTS, complicating the implementation process for users with inadequate knowledge in the field of Text-to-Speech (TTS). The step-by-step process discussed in this study is further demonstrated with the creation of a synthetic voice for the Sinhala language, with unit selection as the voice building approach. A Sinhalese voice was generated with an intelligibility score of 91.7% upon evaluation with Diagnostic Rhyme Test (DRT). Comparison with ground truth data proved a close approximation to human speech where the intelligibility score was identified as 97.9%, when tested with the same participants. The Mean Opinion Score (MOS) revealed a naturalness level of 2.993, indicating a moderately high speech quality for the proposed system in comparison with the ideal score of 4.972.