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Pronunciation of Nouns in Text to Speech systems - IIIT Hyderabad

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Particles<br />

• H<strong>in</strong>di and some other Indian languages have a practice<br />

<strong>of</strong> add<strong>in</strong>g a particle 'ji' or 'saaheba‘ etc., after proper<br />

nouns.<br />

• They are added when the speaker wants <strong>to</strong> give respect<br />

<strong>to</strong> the person he is referr<strong>in</strong>g <strong>to</strong> <strong>in</strong> his speech.<br />

Examples:<br />

• Huma maasat’arajii<br />

arajii sei milnei gayei<br />

(We went <strong>to</strong> meet the teacher)<br />

• Aaja pitaajii ghara para rahe<strong>in</strong>’gei<br />

(Father will be at house <strong>to</strong>day)<br />

11/6/2007<br />

Veera Raghavendra and Lavanya Prahallad.<br />

<strong>IIIT</strong>-<strong>Hyderabad</strong>.

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