8.620, Books: Text-to-speech synthesis

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Subject: 8.620, Books: Text-to-speech synthesis

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SPEECH SYNTHESIS:


                      KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                 TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                             Volume 3
            Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis


              AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS
                                by
                          Thierry Dutoit
                Facult=E9 Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium



"An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis" is a comprehensive
introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech
synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and
the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses
on digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative
approach. Both parts of the text guide the reader through the material
in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way.
This is the first book to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the
perspective of two different engineering approaches. The book will be of
interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech
communication, in both academia and industry.


CONTENTS

1. Introduction.

Part One: From Text to its Narrow Phonetic Transcription.

  2. Grammars, Inference, Parsing, and Transduction.
  3. NLP Architectures for TTS Synthesis.
  4. Morpho-Syntactic Analysis.
  5. Automatic Phonetization.
  6. Automatic Prosody Generation.

Part Two: From Narrow Phonetic Transcription to Speech.

  7. Synthesis Strategies.
  8. Linear Prediction Synthesis.
  9. Hybrid Harmonic/Stochastic Synthesis.
  10. Time-Domain Algorithms.
  11. Conclusions and Perspectives.


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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


   Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
             Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997


Check the series Web page for future publications:

   http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB


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                            ORDER INFORMATION


AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Thierry Dutoit

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7
April 1997, 312 pp.
NLG 170.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 63.00


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