A Technique for Speech Synthesis of Gurmukhi Embedded in LATEX Document

Text to speech conversion is one of the important applications of the natural language processing. Text to Speech application acts as an interface between text and speech to perform communication. Its main motive is to provide the globalization between two different parties by providing the effective communication. The work presented here, maps the Gurmukhi Script embedded in a Latex document using Pandey package to the corresponding Punjabi audio files. It is beneficial for the persons who want to perform the voice communication by using the presented material. In this work, parsing has been used so as to parse each and every word of the input text and then the next task was to identify the phonetic equivalent of the individual words. Once the phonetic equivalent has been obtained, the next work was to throw it to the audio player. At the final stage, the phonetic equivalent in accordance to the given input has been played to produce the person specific voice which is in Punjabi language. The whole work is performed on the JAVA platform.