Progress in speech synthesis / Jan P.H. van Santen ... [and others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Santen, Jan P. H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech synthesis.

Physical Description:

xxii, 598 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [1997]

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Macintosh; UNIX and Windows operating systems.

Summary:

For a machine to convert text into sounds that humans can understand as speech requires an enormous range of components, from abstract analysis of discourse structure to synthesis and modulation of the acoustic output. Work in the field is thus inherently interdisciplinary, involving linguistics, computer science, acoustics, and psychology. This collection of articles by leading researchers in each of the fields involved in text-to-speech synthesis provides a picture of recent work in laboratories throughout the world and of the problems and challenges that remain. By providing samples of synthesized speech as well as video demonstrations for several of the synthesizers discussed, the book will also allow the reader to judge what all the work adds up to -- that is, how good is the synthetic speech we can now produce? Topics covered include: >

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0387947019

OCLC:

34243619