Overview

In the course of an R&D project at the Jerusalem College of Technology, the Wohl Hebrew Speech Synthesizer (HSS) has been developed.  This synthesizer serves as a major component in a Hebrew Text-to-Speech (HTTS) engine.  Some applications of HSS and HTTS in systems include:

 
• Providing a user-friendly man-machine interface for computers and electronic devices  
• Converting textual data base information into audio form  
• Employing interactive response in stationary, portable, and vehicular telephones  
• Enabling blind individuals to read, with the help of OCR (optical character recognition); to    operate computers, using a Hebrew screen-reader; to word process; to use the internet (email); and to navigate, with the help of GPS (global position satellites)  
• Helping vocally disabled persons to speak by using a VOCA (voice output communication aid)  
• Advancing miscellaneous multimedia and internet applications

This project has been sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Maurice and Vivienne Wohl of Geneva, Switzerland, to advance the use of the Hebrew language in the modern era and especially to benefit the various handicapped users of HSS.  Dr. Yehuda Sonnenblick and Mr. Aryeh Teitelbaum, JCT technologists, in collaboration with Prof. Asher Laufer, a consultant linguist, have developed the synthesizer.

 

 

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Sample #1:
Input:
 "MAXA'LOKET XADA'SHA '4AL 4I'TUJ XAGI'GOT HABIKU'RIM BAKIBU*TSIM, ME7A'JEMET  LEHA'SHBIT 'XELEK MEHA7ERU*4IM, SHEME7A'RGENET 4AMU'TAT HAJO*VEL."
Output:   maxloket.wav 

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Sample #2:

Input:
"MEKO'ROT MISHPATI'JIM 7A*MRU, 'KI MEGA'MA 'ZO MISTA'MENET ME'7AZ SHIXRU'RAM  MEHA'KELE 'SHEL KA'MA MIMANHI'GEJ HAMEXA*BLIM, BA'HEM '7ISH HAXA'ZIT  HA4AMA*MIT, 7E'XMOD 'KUF 'TEJT '7ALEF 'MEM *SHIN. 'ROV HAKLU'7IM  SHEMA4ATSA'RAM KU*TSAR, 'HEM PE4I'LEJ *SHETAX, 'VELO 7A'NSHEJ HAHANHA*GA.  KA'JOM MU'XZEKIM BEJISRA'7EL MA'TAJIM 4ATSI'RIM MINHALI*JIM."
Output:   mekorot.wav