Implementation of Javanese Text to Speech using MaryTTS Engine

Indonesia is a country consisting of many ethnic groups with each having different cultures and languages. One of the tribes in Indonesia is the Javanese, where most of the Javanese live on the island of Java. The Javanese have their culture along with its language and character. In this research, Javanese text to speech has been implemented, and as interface, word processor application has been developed. This word processor application is used to convert the writing in Roman character into Java character and also as input for the text to speech engine. MaryTTS has been used as text to speech engine for Javanese language. From experimental results, the accuracy of word processor for conversion reached 100% while the accuracy of Javanese text to speech reached 98.1%.