Paul Taylor

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer, for graduate students and practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 626
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1245g
• ISBN-13: 9780521899277
• ISBN-10: 0521899273
• Artikelnr.: 24927374

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.