Developments in speech synthesis /
Mark Tatham, Katherine Morton.
- Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, c2005.
- xi, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-334) and index.
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 Large Databases.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 and Intonation.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. show less