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Dhvani is a [[Text To Speech System]] specially designed for Indian languages. The project started in 2000 by [[Simputer]] trust headed by Dr. Ramesh Hariharan, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. It uses [[diphone concatenation]] algorithm. Currently it has [[Hindi]],[[Malayalam]],[[Kannada]] .[[Bengali]], [[Oriya]],[[Panjabi]], [[Gujarati]],[[Telugu]] modules.It can serve as a | Dhvani is a [[Text To Speech System]] specially designed for Indian languages. The project started in 2000 by [[Simputer]] trust headed by Dr. Ramesh Hariharan, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. It uses [[diphone concatenation]] algorithm. Currently it has [[Hindi]],[[Malayalam]],[[Kannada]] .[[Bengali]], [[Oriya]],[[Panjabi]], [[Gujarati]],[[Telugu]] modules.It can serve as a | ||
back end for speech synthesisers in Indian Languages, in conjunction | back end for speech synthesisers in Indian Languages, in conjunction | ||
with a laguage-specific text-to-phonetics module | with a laguage-specific text-to-phonetics module. This speech engine has not made any attempt | ||
to do prosody on the output. It simply concatenates basic sound units | to do prosody on the output. It simply concatenates basic sound units | ||
at pitch periods and plays them out. Adding prosody is a task for the future. | at pitch periods and plays them out. Adding prosody is a task for the future. | ||