People

Imrul Amir Rahat
Computer Science
AIUB
Responsibility: Developing the diphone database for Bengali and adding other linguistic support for Festival for improved text to speech synthesis in Bengali.
Email: amir.rahat@gmail.com

Rudmila Razzaque
Computer Science
AIUB
Responsibility: Linguistic analysis and Correcting diphone database.
Email: rudmila@gmail.com

Zakaria Bin Abdur Rauf
Computer Science
AIUB
Responsibility: Developing the User Interface to work with Festival for Bengali Unicode and ASCII text input for synthesis.
Email: zakaria7@gmail.com

Acknowledgements

We would like thank the Festvox/Festival development team who made it possible to develop TTS systems for so many languages and thus created an opportunity to give access to a huge number of people to the digital information. We specially thank Dr. Alan W Black ,Kevin A. Lenzo and people who were so supportive in the Festival mailing list.

Without the support of Mr. Mahboob Alam, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, AIUB - our supervisor, this work would simply not be. We like to thank Mr.Hamidul Haque, Faculty of English, AIUB his linguistic knowledge and patience were providential for us. We should remember our friend Samad Farzana, for her support and encouragement.