This work was made possible through the PAN Localization Project, (http://www.PANL10n.net) a grant from the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada, administered through the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan.
The voice you hear on Bangla Text-to-Speech Synthesizer is that of Mohammad Alomgir.
- We would like to thank Mohammad Alomgir for providing us with such a lucid, male voice.
- We apologize for robotizing his manly natural voice to suit our selfish motives!
Team members of Katha: Bangla Text to Speech (Bangla TTS)':
- Firoj Alam
- S. M. Murtoza Habib
- Mahmud Hossain (Diphone Labeling)
- Mr. Kamrul Hayder (Lexicon Development)
- Professor Mumit Khan, PhD
Katha (Bangla TTS) MSAPI Solution (Win32) developed by: Professor Mumit Khan, PhD
Voice provided by: Mohammad Alomgir
Special Thanks to:
Professor Mumit Khan, PhD - Head, Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University.
Dr. Sarmad Hussain (NUCES, Pakistan)- Associate Professor and Head of Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing. We would like to thank him on behalf of conducting training workshop on "Phonetics and Phonology for TTS" and supporting throughout the project.
Asanka Wasala (Team lead-Sinhala TTS team)
- For assisting us to solve various technical problems.
Special thanks to Dr. Briony Williams and Dewi B Jones for their valuable suggestions.
Festival-MSAPI Bridge team:
- Dr. Briony Williams (University of Wales, Bangor)
- Dewi B Jones (University of Wales, Bangor)
- Dr. Rhys J Jones (University of Wales, Bangor)
Festival Speech Synthesis System team:
- Alan W Black (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Rob Clark (Edinburgh University)
- Korin Richmond (Edinburgh University)
- Paul Taylor, (University of Cambridge)
- Richard Caley
- Heiga Zen (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Flite-MSAPI
- David Huggins Daines
Developer of WordTalk
- Rod Macaulay of TASSC in Aberdeen
Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, NECTEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Sameer Ud Dowla Khan, UCLA
praat:
Paul Boersma, Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam
And other colleagues of the Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP), BRAC University
- Naira Khan
- Md. Nasimul Amin
- Dil Afroza Sultana
- Rabia Sultana Ummi
- Fahmina Huda