Bangla text to speech synthesis is a research based project. The main focus will be to develop a lightweight and easy to use system. A XML based based tagging language will be developed for text normalization. It will be an open source project.

1. Project Proposal
Presentation
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2. Myself
Khandaker Mamun Ahmed
Student of BSSE 8th Semester
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhaka
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3. Supervisor
Dr. B.M. Mainul Hossain
Assistant Professor
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhaka
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4. Contents
Motivation
Background
Scope
Challenges
Tools & Technologies
Methodology
Deliverables
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5. Bangla Text to Speech
Synthesis
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6. Motivation
Help The Sightless
Help The Mutes
Help The Illiterate
Work for the native language
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7. Background
• Very few research is performed on Bangla Text to
Speech(TTS) Synthesis
• Existing Bangla TTS Systems takes Large memory
space.
• Speech Naturalness is not good.
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8. Scope
• Lightweight
• Understandable Speech
• Develop a XML based Bangla
tagging language
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9. Challenges
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•Text Normalization
•Lightweightness
•Understandable Speech

10. Text Normalization
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11. Methodology
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12. Tools & Technologies
• Java
• Speech Synthesizer API
• Eclipse
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13. Deliverables
• User Manual
• Installation File
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14. Any Questions?
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15. Thanks
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