Turkish text to speech system
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Abstract
Scientists have been interested in producing human speech artificially for more than two
centuries. After the invention of computers, computers have been used in order to
synthesize speech. By the help of this new technology, Text To Speech (TTS) systems
that take a text as input and produce speech as output have been created. Some languages
like English and French have taken most of the attention and some languages like Turkish
have not been taken into consideration.
This thesis presents a TTS system for Turkish that uses the diphone concatenation
method. It takes a text as input and produces corresponding speech in Turkish. The output
can be obtained in one male voice only in this system. Since Turkish is a phonetic
language, this system also can be used for other phonetic languages with some minor
modifications. If this system is integrated with a pronunciation unit, it can also be used
for languages that are not phonetic.