Vietnamese Text To Speech

Abstract

Computer plays an important and inevitable role in modern life. Nowadays, it participates in almost of fields such as mechanism, electronics and communications, etc… It becomes an effective tool of human in information processing. Therefore, along with the fast development of computer, forms of information exchange between human and computer also become diversity. Currently, there are some popular information exchange ways such as via keyboard, mouse and monitor, etc... However, there is a method of communication is high appreciated and close to human - using voice. It requires the combination of many research areas to implement, such as artificial intelligence, languages and voice processing. It will be a significant step to increase computer's strength, by the way, communication between human and computer will be more friendly day by day and it may be a new way of reading. Speech synthesis is known and studied rather widely over the world. The result is very satisfactory, there are many languages are successfully synthesized with good quality like English and French, etc... Recently, voice processing is focused to research in Vietnam, but the result is encouraged. Speech synthesis system can be applied in many fields of life. It has the successful applications as help the blind user, integrated with the car navigation systems or speech translation systems, etc... Our graduation project focuses on study of Vietnamese synthesis approach for the purpose of contributing to its development. Then we will build a complete application to read Vietnamese document or text in computers