Script to speech conversion for Hindi language by using artificial neural network

Abstract

This paper represents the technique for converting the text written in Hindi language into speech by using artificial neural network. Text to speech conversion software can have many applications in day to day life. It can be useful for blind people to read the document. It is useful in giving education to the students by listening what is written in books. If someone doesn't have time to read emails, he can listen the contents of email while doing other work. The document containing Hindi text is scanned and given as an input to the system, it is considered as an image. Then preprocessing is done for the document to obtained clear image. In this system neural network is used for character recognition, so the system can be enhanced to work with letters written in different style or fonts. After the letters in the document are successfully identified by neural network, the text in the document is converted into speech.