Text-To-Speech

Introduction: Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. Synthesized speech can be created by concatenating pieces of recorded speech that are stored in a database. Systems differ in the size of the stored speech units; a system that stores phones or diphones provides the largest output range, but may lack clarity. For specific usage domains, the storage of entire words or sentences allows for high-quality output. Alternatively, a synthesizer can incorporate a model of the vocal tract and other human voice characteristics to create a completely "synthetic" voice output. The quality of a speech synthesizer is judged by its similarity to the human voice and by its ability to be understood. An intelligible text-to-speech program allows people with visual impairments or reading disabilities to listen to written works on a home computer. Purpose. lets you listen to text instead of reading on screen! It uses 'Text to Speech' technology to synthesize natural sounding speech from ordinary text. Just copy text to the clipboard or import from text files and listen as IISC reads it back to you!

also allows you to convert text into a MP3/WAV audio file so you can listen later. Create MP3 files from your email, news articles, any text you want, download to your portable MP3 player and off you go! Advantages of text-to-speech:

There are many situations when your customers prefer a self-service method of retrieving information, but certain data is difficult to record. There might be too much data. What if the database is extremely large, for example, a product listing with 50,000 entries? Regardless of size, the database may be too dynamic to maintain in a human recorded manner. If the data changes daily or weekly, the company may not want to spend the time and money rehiring the voice talent or talents, renting the studio and technicians and so on, every week or every month. Text to- Speech is the answer.

Text to speech technology offers the reader numerous benefits, making their experience more interactive. For someone that reads a lot, these programs are invaluable. Text to speech technology makes the load much easier as your program does most of the work. It also helps the reader to improve their comprehension. Even if you become visually distracted, you still receive the content audibly and therefore absorb the material. Research has shown that when read aloud and simultaneously on the screen, text is better absorbed by the reader. Text to speech technology offers the user great flexibility, many applications granting their choice of text. Most programs are compatible with processors such as WordPerfect and also support popular email clients. More advanced software

offers the ability to convert to text in audio files such MP3 and AAC format. Professional editions often come included with extra audio converters that allow you to convert files into WAV and other sound formats. These are features you typically will not find in standard versions. Modules: 1. Login 2. Register 3. Text recognizer 4. Speech recognizer 5. Speaker Existing system During early attempts at synthetic speech, memory was extremely expensive. This expense affected the way early synthesis engines were designed. A memoryefficient synthesis by rule system was popular, most commonly known as a formant engine. A formant synthesizer created totally digitized or synthetic speech with no human recordings used. One advantage of this method is that the pitch and duration of words could be varied. However, the sound quality is inferior Although this technique has been used with some success, typically in niche applications, most perceive this type of Text-to-Speech engine as sounding robotic. Proposed System : Text-to-Speech (TTS)or speech synthesis technology, as it is sometimes referred to has advanced a great deal in just the last few years. TTS converts ordinary

ASCII text or other textual information into intelligible speech that now closely resembles a natural voice. It brings considerable advantages over the prerecording of prompts from a time, cost and storage capacity requirement perspective. Prerecorded speech requires strict limits to what will be spoken based on a defined script. Often, the larger the script, the greater the cost to record and time needed to prepare. Which means losing valuable time-tomarket, or worse, time-to-money opportunity. TTS communicates information to customers when possible selections include large numbers of items from databases that must be spoken to callers, or when a list of selections changes regularly. For example, this technology would be effective for an organization that needs to confirm street addresses of callers and whose database contains many thousands of different addresses, or for the reading of email, news alerts or other dynamic content. System Environment:

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Operating System : MS Windows server 2003/XP/NT Languages : C# (.Net Frame Work 3.5) IDE : Visual Studios 2008 Front End : C# (winforms) Back End : Sql Server 2005

Hardware Requirements

SYSTEM HARD DISK RAM

: Pentium IV : 40 GB : 512 MB