Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system

Research on Text-to-speech technology has received the interest of professional researchers in many languages which is a consequence of wide range of applications where Text-To-Speech is implemented. However, Arabic language, spoken by millions of people as an official language in 24 different coun...

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Main Authors: Zeki, Mustafa, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Naji, A. W.
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Published: 2010
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spelling iium-58122012-03-15T00:01:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/5812/ Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system Zeki, Mustafa Khalifa, Othman Omran Naji, A. W. T Technology (General) Research on Text-to-speech technology has received the interest of professional researchers in many languages which is a consequence of wide range of applications where Text-To-Speech is implemented. However, Arabic language, spoken by millions of people as an official language in 24 different countries, gained less attention compared with other languages despite the fact that it has a religious value for more than 1.6 billion Muslim worldwide. These facts exhibit the need for a high quality, smallsize, and completely free Arabic TTS with the ability of future improvements. The vowelized written text of Arabic language carries the pronunciation rules with limited exceptions, so rulebased system with an exception dictionary for words that fail with those letter-to-phoneme rules may be a much more reasonable approach. This paper is a development of a rulebased text-to-speech Hybrid synthesis system which is a combination formant and concatenation techniques with acceptable naturalness. The simulation results of the system shows good quality in handling word, phrase, and sentence level compared to other available Arabic TTS systems. The accuracy of the overall system is 96%. Further improvements need to be done for stressed syllable position and intonation. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5812/1/05556773.pdf Zeki, Mustafa and Khalifa, Othman Omran and Naji, A. W. (2010) Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system. In: International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE'10, 11-13 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556773 doi:10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556773
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Zeki, Mustafa
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Naji, A. W.
Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system
description Research on Text-to-speech technology has received the interest of professional researchers in many languages which is a consequence of wide range of applications where Text-To-Speech is implemented. However, Arabic language, spoken by millions of people as an official language in 24 different countries, gained less attention compared with other languages despite the fact that it has a religious value for more than 1.6 billion Muslim worldwide. These facts exhibit the need for a high quality, smallsize, and completely free Arabic TTS with the ability of future improvements. The vowelized written text of Arabic language carries the pronunciation rules with limited exceptions, so rulebased system with an exception dictionary for words that fail with those letter-to-phoneme rules may be a much more reasonable approach. This paper is a development of a rulebased text-to-speech Hybrid synthesis system which is a combination formant and concatenation techniques with acceptable naturalness. The simulation results of the system shows good quality in handling word, phrase, and sentence level compared to other available Arabic TTS systems. The accuracy of the overall system is 96%. Further improvements need to be done for stressed syllable position and intonation.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Zeki, Mustafa
Khalifa, Othman Omran
Naji, A. W.
author_facet Zeki, Mustafa
Khalifa, Othman Omran
Naji, A. W.
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title Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system
title_short Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system
title_full Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system
title_fullStr Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system
title_full_unstemmed Development of an Arabic text-to-speech system
title_sort development of an arabic text-to-speech system
publishDate 2010
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