Text to Speech System for Malayalam

Text-to speech (TTS) systems which mainly meant for speech synthesis are, used for one of the South Indian languages called Malayalam. The paper makes a brief study on, Malayalam linguistics, and also gives a comparison between two prominent methodologies for speech synthesis, viz Concatenative based synthesis and HMM based synthesis. As a result, the paper mentions some of the problems facing by Concatenative based TTS systems and thereby, the research goes on with HMM synthesis. The paper also done a proposal for TTS system for Malayalam which is statistical based using HMM’s (Hidden Markov Model).