Papers by Pasindu De Silva
Voice Builder: A Tool for Building Text-To-Speech Voices (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a text-to-speech voice building tool is available for low-resourced languages . the tool allows researchers to run voice training experiments and listen to the resulting voice . |
| Approach: | They propose an opensource text-to-speech (TTS) voice building tool that focuses on simplicity, flexibility, and collaboration. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool can help improve TTS research especially for low-resourced languages . it can be used to run voice training experiments and listen to the resulting synthesized voice . |
Burmese Speech Corpus, Finite-State Text Normalization and Pronunciation Grammars with an Application to Text-to-Speech (2020.lrec-1)
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Yin May Oo, Theeraphol Wattanavekin, Chenfang Li, Pasindu De Silva, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Martin Jansche, Oddur Kjartansson, Alexander Gutkin
| Challenge: | Using crowd-sourced speech corpus and finite-state transducer grammars, we build a text-to-speech system for Burmese, a tonal Southeast Asian language from the Sino-Tibetan family. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source crowd-sourced multi-speaker speech corpus and finite-state grammars for performing grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for Burmese. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system performs well for Burmese in a low-resource setting. |