Gen Hattori

Development and Evaluation of Japanese Text-to-speech Middleware for 32-Bit Microcontrollers

Japanese text-to-speech (TTS) middleware for 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) such as Arm Cortex-M4 has been developed. Our TTS middleware is based on HMM-based speech synthesis techniques and includes an analyzer to generate pronunciation from texts that consist of Kanji (ideographic) and Kana (sylla…