Predicting Prosody From Text For Text To Speech Synthesis

Author : K. Sreenivasa Rao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 136 pages
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Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461413387

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Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis by K. Sreenivasa Rao Pdf

Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis covers the specific aspects of prosody, mainly focusing on how to predict the prosodic information from linguistic text, and then how to exploit the predicted prosodic knowledge for various speech applications. Author K. Sreenivasa Rao discusses proposed methods along with state-of-the-art techniques for the acquisition and incorporation of prosodic knowledge for developing speech systems. Positional, contextual and phonological features are proposed for representing the linguistic and production constraints of the sound units present in the text. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers working in the area of speech processing.

Author : K. Sreenivasa Rao,Springer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Speech processing systems
ISBN : 1461413397

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Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-To-Speech Synthesis by K. Sreenivasa Rao,Springer Pdf

Author : Yoshinori Sagisaka,Nick Campbell,Norio Higuchi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461222583

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Computing PROSODY by Yoshinori Sagisaka,Nick Campbell,Norio Higuchi Pdf

This book presents a collection of papers from the Spring 1995 Work shop on Computational Approaches to Processing the Prosody of Spon taneous Speech, hosted by the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Re search Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan. The workshop brought together lead ing researchers in the fields of speech and signal processing, electrical en gineering, psychology, and linguistics, to discuss aspects of spontaneous speech prosody and to suggest approaches to its computational analysis and modelling. The book is divided into four sections. Part I gives an overview and theoretical background to the nature of spontaneous speech, differentiating it from the lab-speech that has been the focus of so many earlier analyses. Part II focuses on the prosodic features of discourse and the structure of the spoken message, Part ilIon the generation and modelling of prosody for computer speech synthesis. Part IV discusses how prosodic information can be used in the context of automatic speech recognition. Each section of the book starts with an invited overview paper to situate the chapters in the context of current research. We feel that this collection of papers offers interesting insights into the scope and nature of the problems concerned with the computational analysis and modelling of real spontaneous speech, and expect that these works will not only form the basis of further developments in each field but also merge to form an integrated computational model of prosody for a better understanding of human processing of the complex interactions of the speech chain.

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521899277

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Text-to-Speech Synthesis by Paul Taylor Pdf

Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer. Giving an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis technology, it assumes no specialised prior knowledge. Introductory chapters on linguistics, phonetics, signal processing and speech signals lay the foundation, with subsequent material explaining how this knowledge is put to use in building practical systems that generate speech. Including coverage of the very latest techniques such as unit selection, hidden Markov model synthesis, and statistical text analysis, explanations of the more traditional techniques such as format synthesis and synthesis by rule are also provided. Weaving together the various strands of this multidisciplinary field, the book is designed for graduate students in electrical engineering, computer science, and linguistics. It is also an ideal reference for practitioners in the fields of human communication interaction and telephony.

Author : Keikichi Hirose,Jianhua Tao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783662452585

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Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis by Keikichi Hirose,Jianhua Tao Pdf

The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.

Author : Harald Romsdorfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3832280901

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Polyglot Text-to-speech Synthesis by Harald Romsdorfer Pdf

Author : Qiang Huo,Bin Ma,Eng-Siong Chng,Haizhou Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540496656

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Chinese Spoken Language Processing by Qiang Huo,Bin Ma,Eng-Siong Chng,Haizhou Li Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2006, held in Singapore in December 2006, co-located with ICCPOL 2006, the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Coverage includes speech science, acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition, speech data mining, and machine translation of speech.

Author : Thierry Dutoit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401157308

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An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis by Thierry Dutoit Pdf

This is the first book to treat two areas of speech synthesis: natural language processing and the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; and digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative approach. The text guides the reader through the material in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech communication, in both academia and industry.

Author : Jan P.H. van Santen,Richard Sproat,Joseph Olive,Julia Hirschberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461218944

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Progress in Speech Synthesis by Jan P.H. van Santen,Richard Sproat,Joseph Olive,Julia Hirschberg Pdf

For a machine to convert text into sounds that humans can understand as speech requires an enormous range of components, from abstract analysis of discourse structure to synthesis and modulation of the acoustic output. Work in the field is thus inherently interdisciplinary, involving linguistics, computer science, acoustics, and psychology. This collection of articles by leading researchers in each of the fields involved in text-to-speech synthesis provides a picture of recent work in laboratories throughout the world and of the problems and challenges that remain. By providing samples of synthesized speech as well as video demonstrations for several of the synthesizers discussed, the book will also allow the reader to judge what all the work adds up to -- that is, how good is the synthetic speech we can now produce? Topics covered include: Signal processing and source modeling Linguistic analysis Articulatory synthesis and visual speech Concatenative synthesis and automated segmentation Prosodic analysis of natural speech Synthesis of prosody Evaluation and perception Systems and applications.

Author : Xu Tan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789819908271

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Neural Text-to-Speech Synthesis by Xu Tan Pdf

Text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize intelligible and natural speech based on the given text. It is a hot topic in language, speech, and machine learning research and has broad applications in industry. This book introduces neural network-based TTS in the era of deep learning, aiming to provide a good understanding of neural TTS, current research and applications, and the future research trend. This book first introduces the history of TTS technologies and overviews neural TTS, and provides preliminary knowledge on language and speech processing, neural networks and deep learning, and deep generative models. It then introduces neural TTS from the perspective of key components (text analyses, acoustic models, vocoders, and end-to-end models) and advanced topics (expressive and controllable, robust, model-efficient, and data-efficient TTS). It also points some future research directions and collects some resources related to TTS. This book is the first to introduce neural TTS in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand way and can serve both academic researchers and industry practitioners working on TTS.

Author : Rajendra Prasath,T. Kathirvalavakumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319038445

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Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration by Rajendra Prasath,T. Kathirvalavakumar Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2013, held in Tamil Nadu, India on December 2013. The 82 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 334 submissions. The papers cover the topics such as feature selection, classification, clustering, image processing, network security, speech processing, machine learning, information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, language, cognition and computation and other certain problems in dynamical systems.

Author : Richard Sproat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0792380274

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Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis by Richard Sproat Pdf

Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis: The Bell Labs Approach is the first monograph-length description of the Bell Labs work on multilingual text-to-speech synthesis. Every important aspect of the system is described, including text analysis, segmental timing, intonation and synthesis. There is also a discussion of evaluation methodologies, as well as a chapter outlining some future areas of research. While the book focuses on the Bell Labs approach to the various problems of converting from text into speech, other approaches are discussed and compared. Thus, this book serves both the function of providing a single reference to an important strand of research in multilingual synthesis, while at the same time providing a source of information on current trends in the field. Chapters in this work were contributed by Richard Sproat, Jan van Santen, Bernd Möbius, Chilin Shih, Joseph Olive, Evelyne Tzoukermann, all of Bell Labs, and Kazuaki Maeda of the University of Pennsylvania.

Author : M. Horne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401594134

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Prosody: Theory and Experiment by M. Horne Pdf

This volume deals with a wide range of topics including the representation of tones and intonation, evidence for and constraints on prosodic phrasing, prosodic boundary detection, articulatory dynamics of stress, timing in speech, and prosodic correlates of speaking style, as well as the perception of prosodic prominence. The book offers investigators in all areas of speech communication a comprehensive and coherent presentation of contemporary prosodic research.

Author : Petr Sojka,Ivan Kopecek,Karel Pala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540230496

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Text, Speech and Dialogue by Petr Sojka,Ivan Kopecek,Karel Pala Pdf

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004, under the auspices of the Masaryk University. This series of international conferences on text, speech and dialogue has come to c- stitute a major forum for presentation and discussion, not only of the latest developments in academic research in these ?elds, but also of practical and industrial applications. Uniquely, these conferences bring together researchers from a very wide area, both intellectually and geographically, including scientists working in speech technology, dialogue systems, text processing, lexicography, and other related ?elds. In recent years the conference has dev- oped into aprimary meetingplacefor speech and languagetechnologistsfrom manydifferent parts of the world and in particular it has enabled important and fruitful exchanges of ideas between Western and Eastern Europe. TSD 2004 offered a rich program of invited talks, tutorials, technical papers and poster sessions, aswellasworkshops andsystemdemonstrations. Atotalof78paperswereaccepted out of 127 submitted, contributed altogether by 190 authors from 26 countries. Our thanks as usual go to the Program Committee members and to the external reviewers for their conscientious and diligent assessment of submissions, and to the authors themselves for their high-quality contributions. We would also like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all the members of the Organizing Committee for their tireless efforts in organizing the conference and ensuring its smooth running.

Author : Amy Neustein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781614515159

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Speech and Automata in Health Care by Amy Neustein Pdf

Examines various speech technologies deployed in healthcare service robots to maximize the robot's ability to interpret user input. Demonstrates how robot anthropomorphic features and etiquette in behavior promotes user-positive emotions, acceptance of robots, and compliance with robot requests. Analyzes how multimodal medical-service robots and other cyber-physical systems can reduce mistakes and mishaps in the operating room. Evaluates various input methods for improving acceptance of robots in the older adult population. Presents case studies of cognitively and socially engaging robots in the long-term care setting for helping older adults with activities of daily living and in the pediatric setting for helping children with autism spectrum conditions and metabolic disorders. Speech and Automata in Health Care forges new ground by closely analyzing how three separate disciplines - speech technology, robotics, and medical/surgical/assistive care - intersect with one another, resulting in an innovative way of diagnosing and treating both juvenile and adult illnesses and conditions. This includes the use of speech-enabled robotics to help the elderly population cope with common problems associated with aging caused by the diminution in their sensory, auditory and motor capabilities. By examining the emerging nexus of speech, automata, and health care, the authors demonstrate the exciting potential of automata, both speech-driven and multimodal, to affect the healthcare delivery system so that it better meets the needs of the populations it serves. This book provides both empirical research findings and incisive literature reviews that demonstrate some of the more novel uses of speech-enabled and multimodal automata in the operating room, hospital ward, long-term care facility, and in the home. Studies backed by major universities, research institutes, and by EU-funded collaborative projects are debuted in this volume. This volume provides a wealth of timely material for industrial engineers, speech scientists, computational linguists, and for signal processing and intelligent systems design experts. Topics include: Spoken Interaction with Healthcare Robots Service Robot Feature Effects on Patient Acceptance/Emotional Response Designing Embodied and Virtual Agents for the Operating Room The Emerging Role of Robotics for Personal Health Management in the Older-Adult Population Why Input Methods for Robots that Serve the Older Adult Are Critical for Usability Socially and Cognitively Engaging Robots in the Long-Term Care Setting Voice-Enabled Assistive Robots for Managing Autism Spectrum Conditions ASR and TTS for Voice-Controlled Robot Interactions in Treating Children with Metabolic Disorders