Text to Speech Synthesis New Paradigms and Advances

Name: Text to Speech Synthesis New Paradigms and Advances
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ISBN: 9780131456617

ISBN-10: 013145661X

ISBN-13: 9780131456617

Edition: 2005

Authors: Shrikanth Narayanan, Abeer Alwan

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Text to speech synthesis (TTS) is a critical research and application area in the field of multimedia interfaces. Recent advances in TTS will impact is wide number of disciplines from education, business and entertainment applications to medical aids. Until recently, speech synthesis relied on models and rule-based approaches. While this had yielded intelligible sounding speech, the voice quality was unacceptable for widespread adoption. Fortunately, there has been a major technological paradigm shift recently in how speech synthesis is done: going from rule-based to explicit data-driven methods. Recent advances in computing and corpus driven methodologies have yielded exciting…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/3/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface


Foreword



Reducing Discontinuities at Synthesis Time for Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis



Introduction


Shift-Only F0 Smoothing


Improving Quality of MBROLA Synthesis


Evaluation


Discussions and Conclusion


Bibliography



Voice Quality Variation in a Long-Term Recording of a Single Speaker Speech Corpus



Introduction


Perceptual Experiment


Factors of Voice Quality Variation


Candidates of Acoustic Correlates


Prediction of Voice Quality Difference Scores


Summary


Bibliography



Join Cost for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis



Introduction


Previous Work


Spectral Distances


Perceptual Listening Tests


Results and Discussion


Conclusions


Bibliography



Articulatory Modeling: A Role in Concatenative Text to Speech Synthesis



Introduction


Articulatory Modeling


Rule-Based Control of the Parameters


Concatenative Articulatory Synthesis


Concluding Remarks


Bibliography



Minimizing The Amount of Pitch Modification in Speech Synthesis



Introduction


Speech Corpus Analysis


Text Corpus Analysis


Perceptual Experiment


Conclusion


Bibliography



The Use of Speech Recognition Technology in Speech Synthesis



Introduction


Speech Recognition


ASR in Synthesis


Limitations


Speculations


Bibliography



An HMM-Based Approach to Multilingual Speech Synthesis



Introduction


HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System


F0 Pattern Modeling by HMM


Speech-Parameter Generation from an HMM


Implementation on Festival Architecture


Discussion


Conclusion


Bibliography



Prosody Control For HMM-Based Japanese TTS



Introduction


Outline of HMM-Based TTS System


Prosody Generation Using the Quantification Theory (Type 1)


Speech-Rate-Variable Synthesis Method


Conclusions


Bibliography



Synthesizing Expressive Speech Overview: Challenges, and Open Questions



Introduction


Theories of Emotion


Dimensions of Emotional Space


Speech Synthesis Methods


Emotional Speech Data Collection


Experimental Evaluation of Expressive Speech


Presentation of Results From Case Studies


Conclusion


Open Questions and Future Directions


Bibliography



Unit Selection Synthesis of Prosody: Evaluation Using Diphone Transplantation


Romain Prudon, Christophe D'Alessandro and Philippe Boula de Mare uil


Introduction


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