Naturalness improvement in text to speech synthesis using threshold amplitude of the syllable (Marathi language)

This paper presents approach to concatenation of syllable like units to produce speech output from the text input. In the development of a speech synthesis system, unit selection and concatenation is an important stage. The main goal of the talk is to increase cooperation between the speech coding community and the TTS community, and in particular to motivate the need for speech coding algorithms that meet the requirements of the next generation speech synthesis technology. Here, a threshold point of amplitude is used for concatenation of two words while synthesizing the whole sentence.