Author(s)

Archana Balyan

Department of Electronics and Communication, Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, Affiliated to GGSIPU, New Delhi, India.

Most of the information in digital world is accessible to few who can read or understand a particular language. The speech corpus acquisition is an essential part of all spoken technology systems. The quality and the volume of speech data in corpus directly affect the accuracy of the system. However, there are a lot of scopes to develop speech technology system using Hindi language which is spoken primarily in India. To achieve such an ambitious goal, the collection of standard database is a prerequisite. This paper summarizes the Hindi corpus and lexical resources being developed by various organizations across the country.

Speech, Database, Corpora, Lexicon, Speech Synthesis, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

Balyan, A. (2017) Resources for Development of Hindi Speech Synthesis System: An Overview. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 7, 233-241. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2017.76020.