Tatham / Morton Developments in Speech Synthesis

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-01259-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten, E-Book

With a growing need for understanding the process involved inproducing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publicationanswers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing material resulting from many years' teaching andresearch, Speech Synthesis provides a complete account ofthe theory of speech. By bringing together the common goalsand methods of speech synthesis into a single resource, the bookwill lead the way towards a comprehensive view of the processinvolved in human speech. The book includes applications in speechtechnology and speech synthesis.
It is ideal for intermediate students of linguistics andphonetics who wish to proceed further, as well as researchers andengineers in telecommunications working in speech technology andspeech synthesis who need a comprehensive overview of the field andwho wish to gain an understanding of the objectives andachievements of the study of speech production andperception.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tatham, Mark

Morton, Katherine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: Current Work.
1. High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis.
2. Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status.
3. Text-To-Speech.
4. Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?
5. Low-Level Synthesis Potential.
Part II: A New Direction for Speech Synthesis.
6. A View of Naturalness.
7. Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels.
8. Variability and System Integrity.
9. Automatic Speech Recognition.
Part III: High-Level Control.
10. The Need for High-Level Control.
11. The Input to High-Level Control.
12. Problems for Automatic Text Markup.
Part IV: Areas for Improvement.
13. Filling Gaps.
14. Using Different Units.
15. Waveform Concatenation Systems: Naturalness and LargeDatabases.
16. Unit Selection Systems.
Part V: Markup.
17. VoiceXML.
18. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML).
19. SABLE.
20. The Need for Prosodic Markup.
Part VI: Strengthening the High-Level Model.
21. Speech.
22. Basic Concepts.
23. Underlying Basic Disciplines: Expression Studies.
24. Labelling Expressive/Emotive Content.
25. The Proposed Model.
26. Types of Model.
Part VII: Expanded Static and Dynamic Modelling.
27. The Underlying Linguistics System.
28. Planes for Synthesis.
Part VIII: The Prosodic Framework, Coding andIntonation.
29. The Phonological Prosodic Framework.
30. Sample Code.
31. XML Coding.
32. Prosody: General.
33. Phonological and Phonetic Models of Intonation.
Part IX: Approaches to Natural-Sounding Synthesis.
34. The General Approach.
35. The Expression Wrapper in XML.
36. Advantages of XML in Wrapping.
37. Considerations in Characterising Expression/Emotion.
38. Summary.
Part X: Concluding Overview.
References.
Author Index.
Index.