A Multilingual Text to Speech Engine Hindi-English: Hinglish

Being a diverse country, India has a plethora of local & regional languages which sum up-to 16000. For languages like English, a leading language & considered as the lingua-franca in many regions & professional contexts such as science, law, IT applications and services have become more and more prevalent globally. However, nearly five percent of Indian population can communicate in English due to relatively lower literacy rates. Need for a constructive solution as a basis for developing services in local language has been realized. A recent survey reveals that over 528 million native speakers use Hindi or precisely Hinglish in various communication platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram etc. As of now, systems being developed on cutting edge technology still lag behind for diverse Indian languages. Through this paper, the authors have proposed a Text-To-Speech application in Hinglish which would be a tremendous effort to overcome the communication barrier and make information exchange meaningful and fun at the same time in India. The main motive behind this solution is to uplift the marginalized section of Indian society. Also, the authors tried to address the solution of the application performance & natural speech output quality.