%0 Journal Article %A Armin Ghayoori and Faramarz Hendessi and Asrar Sheikh %D 2008 %J International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 20, 2008 %T Application of Smooth Ergodic Hidden Markov Model in Text to Speech Systems %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8461 %V 20 %X In developing a text-to-speech system, it is well known that the accuracy of information extracted from a text is crucial to produce high quality synthesized speech. In this paper, a new scheme for converting text into its equivalent phonetic spelling is introduced and developed. This method is applicable to many applications in text to speech converting systems and has many advantages over other methods. The proposed method can also complement the other methods with a purpose of improving their performance. The proposed method is a probabilistic model and is based on Smooth Ergodic Hidden Markov Model. This model can be considered as an extension to HMM. The proposed method is applied to Persian language and its accuracy in converting text to speech phonetics is evaluated using simulations. %P 2804 - 2810