Developments in Speech SynthesisWith a growing need for understanding the process involved in producing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publication answers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing material resulting from many years’ teaching and research, Speech Synthesis provides a complete account of the theory of speech. By bringing together the common goals and methods of speech synthesis into a single resource, the book will lead the way towards a comprehensive view of the process involved in human speech. The book includes applications in speech technology and speech synthesis. It is ideal for intermediate students of linguistics and phonetics who wish to proceed further, as well as researchers and engineers in telecommunications working in speech technology and speech synthesis who need a comprehensive overview of the field and who wish to gain an understanding of the objectives and achievements of the study of speech production and perception. |
Contents
The Input to HighLevel Control | 11 |
HighLevel and LowLevel Synthesis | 17 |
2 | 23 |
10 | 40 |
5 | 47 |
6 | 59 |
11 | 68 |
8 | 69 |
Speech | 185 |
3332 | 204 |
Labelling ExpressiveEmotive Content | 207 |
The Underlying Linguistics System | 221 |
Planes for Synthesis | 233 |
Sample Code | 245 |
31 | 249 |
32 | 263 |
Automatic Speech Recognition | 79 |
The Need for HighLevel Control | 85 |
13 | 94 |
Problems for Automatic Text Markup | 99 |
Filling Gaps | 113 |
Using Different Units | 119 |
15 | 127 |
Unit Selection Systems | 137 |
17 | 147 |
Speech Synthesis Markup Language SSML | 153 |
20 | 154 |
SABLE | 165 |
General | 265 |
33 | 277 |
Approaches to NaturalSounding Synthesis | 283 |
35 | 291 |
36 | 301 |
Summary | 313 |
the Integrity | 319 |
Optimising the Acoustic Signal for Perception | 325 |
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2005 John Wiley abstract accent acoustic signal approach articulatory synthesis attributes automatic speech recognition basic biological characterisation coarticulation coarticulatory cognitive intervention cognitive phonetics concatenated waveform constraints contour correlation data structure database derived Developments in Speech domain duration dynamic phonetics dynamic plane elements encoded example expressive content expressive/emotive extrinsic allophones formant formant synthesis fundamental frequency hierarchical high-level human speech input instantiation intonation intrinsic Katherine Morton label language linguistic listener low-level orthography output parameters perception phonetic rendering phonological and phonetic phonological prosody physical possible pragmatic problem researchers rhythm rhythmic unit segments semantic sentence soundwave speaker specified spectrogram speech production Speech Synthesis Mark speech waveform SSML static plane syllable symbolic representation syntactic Synthesis Mark Tatham synthesis system Tatham and Katherine Tatham and Morton text-to-speech synthesis text-to-speech systems theory types underlying underlying representation utterance plan variability variation vocal tract voice VoiceXML vowel words