http://hdl.handle.net/10361/638 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:15:51 GMT 2013-05-19T09:15:51Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/663 Text to speech for Bangla language using festival Alam, Firoj; Nath, Promila Kanti; Khan, Mumit In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language using the opensource Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with components supporting front-end processing of the input text, language modeling, and speech synthesis using its signal processing module. The Bangla TTS system proposed here, creates the voice data for festival, and additionally extends festival using its embedded scheme scripting interface to incorporate Bangla language support. Festival is a concatenative TTS system using diphone or other unit selection speech units. Our TTS implementation uses two different kinds of these concatenative methods supported in Festival: unit selection and multisyn unit selection. The modules of such a TTS system are described in this paper, followed by an evaluation of the quality of synthesized speech for acceptability and intelligibility. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/663 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/662 Skew angle detection of bangla script using radon transform Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Noor, Nawsher Ahamed; Khan, Mumit Skew angle detection and correction an integral part of any OCR system. Without proper skew correction, the performance of an OCR will simply not be acceptable for most scanned images. We propose an innovative method for skew angle detection and correction for Bangla scripts using the Radon Transform. The basic idea is to identify the upper envelope by detecting the headline that accompanies most of the letters in the Bangla script, and then apply the Radon Transform to this upper envelope to get the skew angle. Once the angle is known, the correction is quite trivial to perform. While the current implementation handles only a single skew angle per text image, it can be extended to handle multiple skew angles by partitioning the document image. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/662 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/660 Research report on Bengla tagset Mahmud, Altaf; Khan, Mumit This report describes the design of a POS tagset for Bangla, based on the Penn Treebank design. The resulting tagset contains 53 morpho-syntactic tags. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/660 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/659 Research report on Bengla tagged lexicon Hayder, Kamrul; Islam, Md Zahurul; Khan, Mumit This report describes the design and implementation of a Bangla tagged lexicon. The resulting lexicon contains 144,770 entries, out of which 58,145 are verbs. The tags used in the lexicon are reproduced here from a previous report on theBangla tagset. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/659 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z