Developments in Speech Synthesis
Developments in Speech Synthesis

Author: Mark Tatham

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-04-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780470855386

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With a growing need for understanding the process involved in producing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publication answers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing material resulting from many years’ teaching and research, Speech Synthesis provides a complete account of the theory of speech. By bringing together the common goals and methods of speech synthesis into a single resource, the book will lead the way towards a comprehensive view of the process involved in human speech. The book includes applications in speech technology and speech synthesis. It is ideal for intermediate students of linguistics and phonetics who wish to proceed further, as well as researchers and engineers in telecommunications working in speech technology and speech synthesis who need a comprehensive overview of the field and who wish to gain an understanding of the objectives and achievements of the study of speech production and perception.

Text to Speech Synthesis
Text to Speech Synthesis

Author: Shrikanth Narayanan

Publisher: Prentice-Hall PTR

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Developments in Speech Synthesis
Developments in Speech Synthesis

Author: Mark Tatham

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-10-31

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0470012595

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With a growing need for understanding the process involved in producing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publication answers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing material resulting from many years’ teaching and research, Speech Synthesis provides a complete account of the theory of speech. By bringing together the common goals and methods of speech synthesis into a single resource, the book will lead the way towards a comprehensive view of the process involved in human speech. The book includes applications in speech technology and speech synthesis. It is ideal for intermediate students of linguistics and phonetics who wish to proceed further, as well as researchers and engineers in telecommunications working in speech technology and speech synthesis who need a comprehensive overview of the field and who wish to gain an understanding of the objectives and achievements of the study of speech production and perception.

Expression in Speech
Expression in Speech

Author: Mark Tatham

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0199208778

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This book is about the nature of expression in speech. It is a comprehensive exploration of how such expression is produced and understood, and of how the emotional content of spoken words may be analysed, modelled, tested, and synthesized. Listeners can interpret tone-of-voice, assess emotional pitch, and effortlessly detect the finest modulations of speaker attitude; yet these processes present almost intractable difficulties to the researchers seeking to identify and understand them. In seeking to explain the production and perception of emotive content, Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton review the potential of biological and cognitive models. They examine how the features that make up the speech production and perception systems have been studied by biologists, psychologists, and linguists, and assess how far biological, behavioural, and linguistic models generate hypotheses that provide insights into the nature of expressive speech. The authors use recent techniques in speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition as a test bed for models of expression in speech. Acknowledging that such testing presupposes a comprehensive computational model of speech production, they put forward original proposals for its foundations and show how the relevant data structures may be modelled within its framework. This pioneering book will be of central interest to researchers in linguistics and in speech science, pathology, and technology. It will also be valuable for behavioural and cognitive scientists wanting to know more about this vital and elusive aspect of human behaviour

Speech Technology
Speech Technology

Author: Fang Chen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0387738193

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This book gives an overview of the research and application of speech technologies in different areas. One of the special characteristics of the book is that the authors take a broad view of the multiple research areas and take the multidisciplinary approach to the topics. One of the goals in this book is to emphasize the application. User experience, human factors and usability issues are the focus in this book.

Multilingual Speech Processing
Multilingual Speech Processing

Author: Tanja Schultz

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2006-06-12

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 0080457622

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Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech processing, the editors have included theories, algorithms, and techniques that are required to support spoken input and output in a large variety of languages. Multilingual Speech Processing presents a comprehensive introduction to research problems and solutions, both from a theoretical as well as a practical perspective, and highlights technology that incorporates the increasing necessity for multilingual applications in our global community. Current challenges of speech processing and the feasibility of sharing data and system components across different languages guide contributors in their discussions of trends, prognoses and open research issues. This includes automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis, but also speech-to-speech translation, dialog systems, automatic language identification, and handling non-native speech. The book is complemented by an overview of multilingual resources, important research trends, and actual speech processing systems that are being deployed in multilingual human-human and human-machine interfaces. Researchers and developers in industry and academia with different backgrounds but a common interest in multilingual speech processing will find an excellent overview of research problems and solutions detailed from theoretical and practical perspectives. - State-of-the-art research with a global perspective by authors from the USA, Asia, Europe, and South Africa - The only comprehensive introduction to multilingual speech processing currently available - Detailed presentation of technological advances integral to security, financial, cellular and commercial applications

Fundamentals of Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition
Fundamentals of Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition

Author: E. Keller

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1994-10-20

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13:

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The production of truly natural-sounding speech still poses considerable problems, and the reliable recognition of continuous speech is still open to major improvements. This text captures the essential elements of current research on artificial speech synthesis and recognition.

Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing

Author: Chin-Hui Lee

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9812772960

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After decades of research activity, Chinese spoken language processing (CSLP) has advanced considerably both in practical technology and theoretical discovery. In this book, the editors provide both an introduction to the field as well as unique research problems with their solutions in various areas of CSLP. The contributions represent pioneering efforts ranging from CSLP principles to technologies and applications, with each chapter encapsulating a single problem and its solutions.A commemorative volume for the 10th anniversary of the international symposium on CSLP in Singapore, this is a valuable reference for established researchers and an excellent introduction for those interested in the area of CSLP.

Introduction to Digital Speech Processing
Introduction to Digital Speech Processing

Author: Lawrence R. Rabiner

Publisher: Now Publishers Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1601980701

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Provides the reader with a practical introduction to the wide range of important concepts that comprise the field of digital speech processing. Students of speech research and researchers working in the field can use this as a reference guide.

Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Author: Paul Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0521899273

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Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer. Giving an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis technology, it assumes no specialised prior knowledge. Introductory chapters on linguistics, phonetics, signal processing and speech signals lay the foundation, with subsequent material explaining how this knowledge is put to use in building practical systems that generate speech. Including coverage of the very latest techniques such as unit selection, hidden Markov model synthesis, and statistical text analysis, explanations of the more traditional techniques such as format synthesis and synthesis by rule are also provided. Weaving together the various strands of this multidisciplinary field, the book is designed for graduate students in electrical engineering, computer science, and linguistics. It is also an ideal reference for practitioners in the fields of human communication interaction and telephony.