The sound editing software “Sound Forge” was used when preparing the phonemes with correct pitch. The Tamil font “TSC_Avarangal” was selected as the font to develop the user interface. The text can be stored to be used at a later time. The front-end of the engine is a GUI interface that allows users to input Tamil text in letters or even numbers. The text-to-speech engine splits the given text into the basic units of Tamil, extracts the correct phonemes from the database and concatenates the basic unit waveforms in the correct sequence to produce the required sound waveform.
The back-end of the engine was a sound database created with 343 phonemes which were chosen as the basic units of Tamil language.
A text-to-speech conversion engine was developed for Tamil language that could successfully convert any arbitrary Tamil text into spoken utterance.
