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This paper describes about the work done in building a prototype text to speech system for Sanskrit. A basic prototype text-to-speech is built using a simplified Sanskrit phone set, and employing a unit selection technique, where prerecorded sub-word units are concatenated to synthesize a sentence. We also discuss the issues involved in building a full-fledged text-to-speech for Sanskrit.
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Mahananda, B., Raju, C.M.S., Patil, R.R., Jha, N., Varakhedi, S., Kishore, P. (2010). Building a Prototype Text to Speech for Sanskrit. In: Jha, G.N. (eds) Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. ISCLS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6465. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17528-2_3
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