Section Article

The Bangla TTS System Constructed Using Grapheme–Phoneme Rules and a Phonetic Dictionary
Author(s): Akanksha Goel

Abstract
Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis for Indian languages has historically been a complex linguistic and engineering challenge due to diverse phonological structures irregular orthographies and rich morphological patterns. Among these languages Bangla (Bengali) presents a unique mixture of script complexity phonetic richness consonant clusters vowel diacritics and character reordering patterns. The development of a high-quality Bangla TTS system requires precise modeling of the relationship between graphemes as written symbols and phonemes as speech units. This research paper provides an in-depth theoretical and design-oriented study of a Bangla TTS system constructed using grapheme–phoneme (G2P) rules and a phonetic dictionary drawing exclusively on linguistic and computational literature published before 2018.