Introduction of test to speech system

We use speech as the main communication media to communicate between ourselves in our
day to day life. However, when it comes to interacting with computers, apart from watching
and performing actions, majority of communication is achieved nowadays through reading
the computer screen. It involves surfing the internet, reading emails, eBooks, research papers
and many more and this is very time consuming. Nevertheless, visually impaired community
in Sri Lanka is faced with much trouble communicating with computers since a suitable tool
is not available for convenient use. As an appropriate solution to this problem, this project
proposes an effective tool for Text-To-Speech conversion accommodating speech in native
language.

What is text-to-speech?
Not everybody can read text when displayed on the screen or when printed. This may be
because the person is partially sighted, or because they are not literate. These people can be
helped by generating speech rather than by printing or displaying it, using a Text-to-Speech
(TTS) System to produce the speech for the given text. A Text-To-Speech (TTS) system
takes written text (can be from a web page, text editor, clipboard... etc) as the input and
convert it to an audible format so you can hear what is there in the text. It identifies and reads
aloud what is being displayed on the screen. With a TTS application, one can listen to
computer text in place of reading it. That means you can listen to your emails, eBooks while
you do something else which result in saving your valuable time.