Survey on publicly available sinhala natural language processing tools and research

N De Silva - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02358, 2019 - arxiv.org
Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people who make up the largest ethnic
group of Sri Lanka. The language belongs to the globe-spanning language tree, Indo …

[PDF][PDF] Code switching by teachers in the second language classroom

E Makulloluwa - International Journal of Arts & Sciences, 2013 - academia.edu
This study investigates the use of mother tongue (L1) by teachers in the English as a second
language (ESL) classrooms, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It seeks to find the purpose of …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of the effectiveness of using google translations api for nlp of sinhalese

I Ramadasa, L Liyanage, D Asanka, T Dilanka - 2022 - researchgate.net
This research is an effort to analyze the effectiveness of Google Translations API (Google
cloud) as a supportive tool for NLP practices as a solution for lack of feasible Sinhalese …

Adapting marytts for synthesizing sinhalese speech to communicate with children

M Lakmal, K Methmini, D Rupasinghe… - 2021 6th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The majority of the Sri Lankan population speak Sinhala, which is also the country's mother
tongue. Sinhala is a difficult language to learn by children aged between 1–6 years when …

Tacosi: A sinhala text to speech system with neural networks

TK Arachchige, R Weerasinghe - 2023 3rd International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A piece of software that turns text into speech is referred to as text to speech or speech
synthesize software. There are vast number of TTS tools available for various languages …