Progress in Speech Synthesis - Hardcover

 
9780387947013: Progress in Speech Synthesis
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0387947019 ISBN 13: 9780387947013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1996

Synopsis

For a machine to convert text into sounds that humans can understand as speech requires an enormous range of components, from abstract analysis of discourse structure to synthesis and modulation of the acoustic output. Work in the field is thus inherently interdisciplinary, involving linguistics, computer science, acoustics, and psychology. This collection of articles by leading researchers in each of the fields involved in text-to-speech synthesis provides a picture of recent work in laboratories throughout the world and of the problems and challenges that remain. By providing samples of synthesized speech as well as video demonstrations for several of the synthesizers discussed, the book will also allow the reader to judge what all the work adds up to -- that is, how good is the synthetic speech we can now produce? Topics covered include: Signal processing and source modeling Linguistic analysis Articulatory synthesis and visual speech Concatenative synthesis and automated segmentation Prosodic analysis of natural speech Synthesis of prosody Evaluation and perception Systems and applications.

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From the Back Cover

This collection of articles by leading researchers in each of the fields involved in text-to-speech synthesis provides a picture of recent work in laboratories throughout the world and of the problems and challenges that remain. by providing samples of synthesized speech as well as video demonstrations for several of the synthesizers discussed, the book will also allow the reader to judge what all the work adds up to-that is, how good is the synthetic speech we can now produce?

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Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0387947019
ISBN 13 
9780387947013
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
598
Editor
Van Santen Jan P.H., Sproat Richard, Olive Joseph, Hirschberg Julia