Andriod Based Punjabi TTS System

TL;DR

This paper presents the development of a Punjabi text-to-speech system for Android devices using concatenative speech synthesis, addressing challenges like application size and processing time on resource-limited mobile phones.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Punjabi TTS system for Android using concatenative synthesis, filling a gap in language support for mobile speech applications.

Findings

Developed a Punjabi TTS system for Android

Addressed challenges of size and processing time

Achieved synthetic Punjabi speech output

Abstract

The usage of mobile phones is nearly 3.5 times more than that of personal computers. Android has the largest share among its counter parts like IOS, Windows and Symbian Android applications have a very few restrictions on them. TTS systems on Android are available for many languages but a very few systems of this type are available for Punjabi language. Our research work had the aim to develop an application that will be able to produce synthetic Punjabi speech. The paper examines the methodology used to develop speech synthesis TTS system for the Punjabi content, which is written in Gurmukhi script. For the development of this system, we use concatenative speech synthesis method with phonemes as the basic units of concatenation. Some challenges like application size, processing time, must be considered, while porting this TTS system to resource-limited devices like mobile phones.