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Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

by Paul Taylor

2009 (626 pages)

ISBN:9780521899277

Weaving together the various strands of this multidisciplinary field, this book provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer and gives an in-depth explanation of all aspects of speech synthesis technology.

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Table of Contents

Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1	-	Introduction
Chapter 2	-	Communication and Language
Chapter 3	-	The Text-to-Speech Problem
Chapter 4	-	Text Segmentation and Organisation
Chapter 5	-	Text Decoding—Finding the Words from the Text
Chapter 6	-	Prosody Prediction from Text
Chapter 7	-	Phonetics and Phonology
Chapter 8	-	Pronunciation
Chapter 9	-	Synthesis of Prosody
Chapter 10	-	Signals and Filters
Chapter 11	-	Acoustic Models of Speech Production
Chapter 12	-	Analysis of Speech Signals
Chapter 13	-	Synthesis Techniques Based on Vocal-Tract Models
Chapter 14	-	Synthesis by Concatenation and Signal-Processing Modification
Chapter 15	-	Hidden-Markov-Model Synthesis
Chapter 16	-	Unit-Selection Synthesis
Chapter 17	-	Further Issues
Chapter 18	-	Conclusion
Appendix A	-	Probability
Appendix B	-	Phone Definitions
References