Devanagari Printed Text to Speech Conversion using OCR

Text to speech is very much useful in today’s world. People use this technology in their day to day work but couldn’t realize it. A text-to-speech (TTS) system transform common language text into speech signal. In this paper Devanagari text to speech conversion is done for Marathi printed text. To obtain the required output the two techniques are implemented that are Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Text to Speech (TTS) system. OCR is utilized to convert the text from an image into editable text which is done using multiclass Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Text to Speech system gives the audio output.