Text-to-Speech Synthesis

ISBN-13: 9780521899277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 626 str.

Paul Taylor

Opis

A complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer, for graduate students and practitioners.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Communication and language; 3. The text-to-speech problem; 4. Text segmentation and organisation; 5. Text decoding; 6. Prosody prediction from text; 7. Phonetics and phonology; 8. Pronunciation; 9. Synthesis of prosody; 10. Signals and filters; 11. Acoustic models of speech production; 12. Analysis of speech signals; 13. Synthesis techniques based on vocal tract models; 14. Synthesis by concatenation and signal processing modification; 15. Hidden Markov model synthesis; 16. Unit selection synthesis; 17. Further issues; 18. Conclusions.