โ Scribed by Dan Kahn, Marian J. Macchi (auth.), Jan P. H. van Santen, Joseph P. Olive, Richard W. Sproat, Julia Hirschberg (eds.)
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Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Section Introduction. Recent Approaches to Modeling the Glottal Source for TTS....Pages 3-7
Synthesizing Allophonic Glottalization....Pages 9-26
Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Dynamic Control of Source Parameters....Pages 27-39
Modification of the Aperiodic Component of Speech Signals for Synthesis....Pages 41-56
On the Use of a Sinusoidal Model for Speech Synthesis in Text-to-Speech....Pages 57-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Section Introduction. The Analysis of Text in Text -to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 73-75
Language-Independent Data-Oriented Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion....Pages 77-89
All-Prosodic Speech Synthesis....Pages 91-108
A Model of Timing for Nonsegmental Phonological Structure....Pages 109-121
A Complete Linguistic Analysis for an Italian Text-to-Speech System....Pages 123-138
Discourse Structural Constraints on Accent in Narrative....Pages 139-156
Homograph Disambiguation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 157-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Section Introduction. Talking Heads in Speech Synthesis....Pages 175-178
Section Introduction. Articulatory Synthesis and Visual Speech....Pages 179-184
Speech Models and Speech Synthesis....Pages 185-209
A Framework for Synthesis of Segments Based on Pseudoarticulatory Parameters....Pages 211-220
Biomechanical and Physiologically Based Speech Modeling....Pages 221-234
Analysis-Synthesis and Intelligibility of a Talking Face....Pages 235-246
3D Models of the Lips and Jaw for Visual Speech Synthesis....Pages 247-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Section Introduction. Concatenative Synthesis....Pages 261-262
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
A Mixed Inventory Structure for German Concatenative Synthesis....Pages 263-277
Prosody and the Selection of Source Units for Concatenative Synthesis....Pages 279-292
Optimal Coupling of Diphones....Pages 293-304
Automatic Speech Segmentation for Concatenative Inventory Selection....Pages 305-311
The Aligner: Text-to-Speech Alignment Using Markov Models....Pages 313-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Section Introduction. Prosodic Analysis: A Dual Track?....Pages 327-329
Section Introduction. Prosodic Analysis of Natural Speech....Pages 331-332
Automatic Extraction of F 0 Control Rules Using Statistical Analysis....Pages 333-346
Comparing Approaches to Pitch Contour Stylization for Speech Synthesis....Pages 347-363
Generation of Pauses Within the z-score Model....Pages 365-381
Duration Study for the Bell Laboratories Mandarin Text-to-Speech System....Pages 383-399
Synthesizing German Intonation Contours....Pages 401-415
Effect of Speaking Style on Parameters of Fundamental Frequency Contour....Pages 417-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Section Introduction. Text and Prosody....Pages 431-434
Section Introduction. Phonetic Representations for Intonation....Pages 435-441
Computational Extraction of Lexico-Grammatical Information for Generation of Swedish Intonation....Pages 443-457
Parametric Control of Prosodic Variables by Symbolic Input in TTS Synthesis....Pages 459-475
Prosodic and Intonational Domains in Speech Synthesis....Pages 477-493
Speaking Styles: Statistical Analysis and Synthesis by a Text-to-Speech System....Pages 495-510
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Section Introduction. Evaluation Inside or Assessment Outside....Pages 513-517
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
A Structured Way of Looking at the Performance of Text-to-Speech Systems....Pages 519-527
Evaluation of a TTS-System Intended for the Synthesis of Names....Pages 529-540
Perception of Synthetic Speech....Pages 541-560
Front Matter....Pages 561-561
Section Introduction. A Brief History of Applications....Pages 563-564
A Modular Architecture for Multilingual Text-to-Speech....Pages 565-573
High-Quality Message-to-Speech Generation in a Practical Application....Pages 575-589
Back Matter....Pages 591-598
Signal, Image and Speech Processing;Linguistics (general);Language Translation and Linguistics;Acoustics;Communications Engineering, Networks
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