KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 3
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis
AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS
by
Thierry Dutoit
Facult=E9 Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
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"An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis" is a comprehensive =
introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech =
synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and =
the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses =
on digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative =
approach. Both parts of the text guide the reader through the material =
in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way.
This is the first book to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the =
perspective of two different engineering approaches. The book will be of =
interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech =
communication, in both academia and industry. =
CONTENTS
1. Introduction. =
Part One: From Text to its Narrow Phonetic Transcription.
2. Grammars, Inference, Parsing, and Transduction. =
3. NLP Architectures for TTS Synthesis.
4. Morpho-Syntactic Analysis.
5. Automatic Phonetization.
6. Automatic Prosody Generation.
Part Two: From Narrow Phonetic Transcription to Speech.
7. Synthesis Strategies.
8. Linear Prediction Synthesis.
9. Hybrid Harmonic/Stochastic Synthesis.
10. Time-Domain Algorithms.
11. Conclusions and Perspectives.
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PREVIOUS VOLUMES
Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996
Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997
Check the series Web page for future publications:
http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB
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AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Thierry Dutoit
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht =
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7
April 1997, 312 pp.
NLG 170.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 63.00
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