Text-to-speech Synthesis

Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer. Giving an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis technology, it assumes no specialised prior knowledge. Introductory chapters on linguistics, phonetics, signal processing and speech signals lay the foundation, with subsequent material explaining how this knowledge is put to use in building practical systems that generate speech. Including coverage of the very latest techniques such as unit selection, hidden Markov model synthesis, and statistical text analysis, explanations of the more traditional techniques such as format synthesis and synthesis by rule are also provided. Weaving together the various strands of this multidisciplinary field, the book is designed for graduate students in electrical engineering, computer science, and linguistics. It is also an ideal reference for practitioners in the fields of human communication interaction and telephony.

ISBN 0521899273   Pages 626 ISBN13 9780521899277 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 1390 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 247 Publication date 19 Feb 2009   Width (mm) 174 Library of Congress TK7882   Spine width (mm) 34 DEWEY 006.454   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introduction		1
2		Communication and language		8
3		The text-to-speech problem		26
4		Text segmentation and organisation		52
5		Text decoding		78
6		Prosody prediction from text		111
7		Phonetics and phonology		146
8		Pronunciation		192
9		Synthesis of prosody		225
10		Signals and filters		262
11		Acoustic models of speech production		309
12		Analysis of speech signals		341
13		Synthesis techniques based on vocal-tract models		387
14		Synthesis by concatenation and signal-processing modification		412
15		Hidden-Markov-model synthesis		435
16		Unit-selection synthesis		474
17		Further issues		517
18		Conclusions		533
		Appendix A		540
		Appendix B		553
		References		556
		Index		583

'According to Taylor, 'in written language the author may take the liberty of explaining something in a complicated fashion knowing that the reader can go back and read this several times'. However, this is not true in the case of his book. Taylor so clearly presents the concepts, that re-reading is unnecessary.' Joao Luis G. Rosa, Computing Reviews

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