K. C. Rajeswari^1,*, R. S. Mohana², S. Manikandan³, S. Beski Prabaharan⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 65-86, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.022681

Abstract In recent years, Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis is taking a new dimension. People prefer voice embedded toys, online buyers are interested in interactive chat application in the form of text-to-speech facility, screen readers for visually challenged people, and many more applications use TTS module. TTSis a system that is capable of converting the arbitrary text input into natural sounding speech. It’s success lies in producing more human like speech sounding more natural. The most importanttechnical aspect of TTS is feature extraction process. Both text and speech features are needed but it is not that easy to select meaningful and useful features… More >

Shahid Ali Mahar¹, Mumtaz Hussain Mahar¹, Javed Ahmed Mahar¹, Mehedi Masud², Muneer Ahmad³, NZ Jhanjhi^4,*, Mirza Abdur Razzaq¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 183-197, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015755

Abstract Speech signal analysis for the extraction of speech elements is viable in natural language applications. Rhythm, intonation, stress, and tone are the elements of prosody. These features are essential in emotional speech, speech to speech, speech recognition, and other applications. The current study attempts to extract the pitch and duration from historical Sindhi sound clips using the functional contours model’s superposition. The sampled sound clips contained the speech of 273 undergraduates living in 5 districts of the Sindhi province. Several Python libraries are available for the application of this model. We used these libraries for the extraction of prosodic data… More >