10 thoughts on “Arabic TTS”

1. Naif Aljohani July 4, 2011 at 2:10 pm

   I’ve found these two speech engines, they sound impressive when you play their demo.

   Acapela:
   http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html you can download it from http://www.nextup.com/download.html.. The demo comes with low quality voices.

   Loquendo:
   http://www.loquendo.com/en/demo-center/tts-demo/arabic/ I couldn’t find their download page, maybe you should contact them directly..

   frined of mine bought TTS from AT&T research labs.. I’ve checked the IBM, but it seems still under research..
2. E.A Draffan July 4, 2011 at 2:11 pm

   Thanks so much Naif and I also failed to find a download on their pages and only found some here http://www.dl4all.com/4ya/tag/Loquendo+TTS+arabic.html
3. E.A Draffan July 4, 2011 at 2:13 pm

   Mike sent an email
   “Now we’re bringing text-to-speech to even more languages with the open source speech synthesizer, eSpeak.”

   hopefully they will add arabic soon :-)

   http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/the-unofficial-google-text-to-speech-api/

   http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-translate-adds-text-to-speech.html
4. fadwa July 4, 2011 at 2:13 pm

   Hello..
   I hope every one is ok.
   This is a link to RDI website :
   http://www.rdi-eg.com/technologies/speech.htm
   This site (from Eygpt) include information about some software resources like: ArabTalk (which includes paper about ArabTalk and Demo).
   This is a link to Nattiq web site: http://www.nattiq.com/en/http%3A/%252Fwww.nattiq.com/en/products

   I hope these links are useful..
   Thank you
   the ArabTalk paper
5. E.A Draffan July 4, 2011 at 2:14 pm

   Many thanks Fadwa and I will chat with David about all the work we are doing tomorrow. See you soon
6. fadwa July 4, 2011 at 2:14 pm

   Hello,,
   I hope every one is fine.
   About the suitable direction for the main menu in Arabic, I found in many sites that the suitable direction is from right to left.
   I uplouded a file (Doc) contains print screen from some different sites. the file name “Direction of the main menu”.
   Also about Diacritics marks in Arabic, I found this site, may be it is useful:
   http://justlikeamagic.com/2009/01/15/using-strings-that-contain-combining-characters/

   Thank you.
   Regards
   Fadwa
7. Mashael AlKadi July 4, 2011 at 2:15 pm

   Hello all : )

   I’ve found an open-source TTS developed by a group from King Fahad University. It’s called KATTSS (I don’t really know how well effective it’s, but I found it worth sharing)

   “Kacst Arabic Text-to-speech System (KATTSS) is the first open source system that speaks Arabic. Since TTS is an area which needs years of work and development, KATTSS is open to researchers and programmers to improve its speech quality”

   Here is the download link http://sourceforge.net/projects/kacst-atts/

   This is the researcher’s homepage Dr. Moustafa Elsshafei http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~elshafei/ ( a faculty member of KFUPM School of system engineering)

   Best Regards,

   Mashael
8. Mashael AlKadi July 4, 2011 at 2:15 pm

   The automation of Arabic diacritical marks generation from unvoweled text using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) approach.

   a helpfull resource http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~elshafei/Auto_tashkeel.htm
9. E.A Draffan July 4, 2011 at 2:16 pm

   Thank you so much for all these links and I have been looking at more at http://ceri.kacst.edu.sa/English/Acoustics_lab_Sample_projects.html where there seems to be some help with the phonetic database that might be useful
10. mashael July 5, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    Hello all,

    I’ve found this Google’s API for diacritizing Arabic text which may be helpful:

    http://code.google.com/apis/language/#Diacritization

    Best Wishes,
    Mashael

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