Analysis and synthesis of speech : strategic research towards high-quality text-to-speech generation / edited by Vincent J. van Heuven, Louis C.W. Pols.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heuven, Vincent van.

Pols, Louis C. W., 1941-

Series:

Speech research 11.

Speech research ; 11

Speech Research ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech processing systems.

Speech synthesis.

Physical Description:

xxii, 420 p. : ill.

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

A five year research program "Analysis and Synthesis of Speech" / Cohen, Antonie / Nooteboom, Sieb G.

Part I Input characteristics

Text features affecting listening performance in one way speech communication / Petrič, Irena / Bergh, Huub van den

TextScan: A preprocessing module for automatic text-to-speech conversion / Holsteijn, Yvonne van

Part II Linguistic aspects

Multiple paths to the lexicon / Lammens, Johan M.

MORPA: A morpheme lexicon based morphological parser / Heemskerk, Josée S. / Heuven, Vincent J. van

MORPHON: Lexicon-based text-to-phoneme conversion and phonological rules / Nunn, Anneke M. / Heuven, Vincent J. van

Pattern-driven morphological decomposition / Reizevoort, Jeroen / Heuven, Vincent J. van

Prosodic sentence analysis without exhaustive parsing / Quené, Hugo / Kager, René

Prosodic analysis: The next generation / Dirksen, Arthur / Quené, Hugo

Part III Building blocks for speech synthesis

Speech synthesis with accented and unaccented diphones / Drullman, Rob / Collier, René C.

Development of rule based analysis for text-to-speech / Loman, Henk / Boves, Louis

Part IV Acoustic-phonetic data and synthesis rules

How does speaking rate influence vowel formant track parameters? / Son, Rob J. J. H. van / Pols, Louis C. W.

From data to rules: A background survey / Bosch, Louis F. M. ten

Collecting data for a speech database / Zanten, Ellen van / Damen, Laurens / Houten, Els van

Part V Prosody

Accentuation, information value and word duration: Effects on speech production, naturalness and sentence processing / Eefting, Wieke / Nooteboom, Sieb G.

Human and synthetic intonation: A case study / Terken, Jacques Μ. B.

Sandhi processes in natural and synthetic speech / Jongenburger, Willy / Heuven, Vincent J. van

Part VI Signal analysis

Speech quality and speaker characteristics / Eggen, Berry / Nooteboom, Sieb G.

Robust ARMA analysis for speech research / Veth, Johan de / Brouwers, Wim van Golstein / Boves, Louis

Part VII Implementations and evaluation

A stand-alone text-to-speech system / Deliege, René J. H.

Speech Maker: A flexible framework for constructing text-to-speech systems / Leeuwen, Hugo C. van / Lindert, Enrico te

Evaluation of text-to-speech conversion for Dutch / Bezooijen, René van / Pols, Louis C. W.

Appendix 1: Institutes and individuals participating in ASSP

Appendix 2: Publications by SPIN-funded researchers

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-406) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110879001

311087900X

OCLC:

979628271