Paul Taylor

Text-to-Speech Synthesis (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511512339
• Artikelnr.: 38212168

Autorenporträt

Paul Taylor received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Phonetic Arts Ltd. He has previously been Lecturer and Director in the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh, a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and was founder and Chief Technical Officer of Rhetorical Systems.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Communication and language
3. The text-to-speech problem
4. Text segmentation and organisation
5. Text decoding
6. Prosody prediction from text
7. Phonetics and phonology
8. Pronunciation
9. Synthesis of prosody
10. Signals and filters
11. Acoustic models of speech production
12. Analysis of speech signals
13. Synthesis techniques based on vocal tract models
14. Synthesis by concatenation and signal processing modification
15. Hidden Markov model synthesis
16. Unit selection synthesis
17. Further issues
18. Conclusions.