Text To Speech Synthesis

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Thierry Dutoit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : 45,7 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 : Shrikanth Narayanan
Publisher : Prentice-Hall PTR
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015060092759

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Text to Speech Synthesis by Shrikanth Narayanan Pdf

2011 Carol Award winner for Debut Author from ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers)Jenny Lucas swore she'd never go home again. But being told you're dying has a way of changing things. Years after she left, she and her five-year-old daughter, Isabella, must return to her sleepy North Carolina town to face the ghosts she left behind. They welcome her in the form of her oxygen tank-toting grandmother, her stoic and distant father, and David, Isabella's dad . . . Who doesn't yet know he has a daughter. As Jenny navigates the rough and unknown waters of her new reality, the unforgettable story that unfolds is a testament to the power of love and its ability to change everything-to heal old hurts, bring new beginnings . . . Even overcome the impossible. A stunning debut about love and loss from a talented new voice.

Author : Richard Sproat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005*
Category : Human-machine systems
ISBN : OCLC:613555776

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Text-to-speech Synthesis by Paul Taylor Pdf

Author : Vincent van Heuven,Louis C. W. Pols
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3110135884

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Analysis and Synthesis of Speech by Vincent van Heuven,Louis C. W. Pols Pdf

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Author : Ivan Habernal,Vaclav Matousek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642405853

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Text, Speech, and Dialogue by Ivan Habernal,Vaclav Matousek Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2013, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2013. The 65 papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. The main topics of this year's conference was corpora, texts and transcription, speech analysis, recognition and synthesis, and their intertwining within NL dialogue systems. The topics also included speech recognition, corpora and language resources, speech and spoken language generation, tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech, semantic processing of text and speech, integrating applications of text and speech processing, as well as automatic dialogue systems, and multimodal techniques and modelling.

Author : Wendy Holmes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351988681

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Speech Synthesis and Recognition by Wendy Holmes Pdf

With the growing impact of information technology on daily life, speech is becoming increasingly important for providing a natural means of communication between humans and machines. This extensively reworked and updated new edition of Speech Synthesis and Recognition is an easy-to-read introduction to current speech technology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in electronic engineering, computer science and information technology, the book is also relevant to professional engineers who need to understand enough about speech technology to be able to apply it successfully and to work effectively with speech experts. No advanced mathematical ability is required and no specialist prior knowledge of phonetics or of the properties of speech signals is assumed.

Author : Harald Romsdorfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3832280901

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Polyglot Text-to-speech Synthesis by Harald Romsdorfer Pdf

Author : R.I. Damper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475734133

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Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis by R.I. Damper Pdf

This first review of a new field covers all areas of speech synthesis from text, ranging from text analysis to letter-to-sound conversion. At the leading edge of current research, the concise and accessible book is written by well respected experts in the field.

Author : Mark Tatham,Katherine Morton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 047085538X

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Developments in Speech Synthesis by Mark Tatham,Katherine Morton Pdf

With 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.

Author : Petr Sojka,Aleš Horák,Ivan Kopeček,Karel Pala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319108162

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Text, Speech and Dialogue by Petr Sojka,Aleš Horák,Ivan Kopeček,Karel Pala Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2013, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2014. The 70 papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.

Author : Dan Jurafsky
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131716724

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Speech & Language Processing by Dan Jurafsky Pdf

Author : Yutaka Kidawara,Eiichiro Sumita,Hisashi Kawai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811505959

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Speech-to-Speech Translation by Yutaka Kidawara,Eiichiro Sumita,Hisashi Kawai Pdf

This book provides the readers with retrospective and prospective views with detailed explanations of component technologies, speech recognition, language translation and speech synthesis. Speech-to-speech translation system (S2S) enables to break language barriers, i.e., communicate each other between any pair of person on the glove, which is one of extreme dreams of humankind. People, society, and economy connected by S2S will demonstrate explosive growth without exception. In 1986, Japan initiated basic research of S2S, then the idea spread world-wide and were explored deeply by researchers during three decades. Now, we see S2S application on smartphone/tablet around the world. Computational resources such as processors, memories, wireless communication accelerate this computation-intensive systems and accumulation of digital data of speech and language encourage recent approaches based on machine learning. Through field experiments after long research in laboratories, S2S systems are being well-developed and now ready to utilized in daily life. Unique chapter of this book is end-2-end evaluation by comparing system’s performance and human competence. The effectiveness of the system would be understood by the score of this evaluation. The book will end with one of the next focus of S2S will be technology of simultaneous interpretation for lecture, broadcast news and so on.