Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis
Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis

Author: Keikichi Hirose

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-25

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 3662452588

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The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.

Analysis and Synthesis of Speech
Analysis and Synthesis of Speech

Author: Vincent van Heuven

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9783110135886

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Voice and Speech Quality Perception
Voice and Speech Quality Perception

Author: Ute Jekosch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-08-02

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9783540240952

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Foundations of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts out with the fundamental question of: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Any quantitative answers require measurements. This is natural for physical quantities but harder to imagine for perceptual measurands. This book approaches the problem by actually identifying major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception, defining units wherever possible and offering paradigms to position these dimensions into a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment of systems in artificial scenarios. Many scientific fields are involved. This book bridges the gap between two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception.

Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT)
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT)

Author: Haifeng Li

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-21

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9811527563

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The book presents selected papers that have been accepted at the seventh Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) in December 2019, held in Harbin, Hei Long Jiang, China. CSMT is a domestic conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art society and technical society in China. The organisers of CSMT hope the conference can serve as a platform for interdisciplinary research. In this proceeding, the paper included covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing and music understanding, which demonstrates the target of CSMT merging arts and science research together.

Text, Speech and Dialogue
Text, Speech and Dialogue

Author: Petr Sojka

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 3319108166

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2013, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2014. The 70 papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.

Progress in Speech Synthesis
Progress in Speech Synthesis

Author: Jan P.H. van Santen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 1461218942

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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: Signal processing and source modeling Linguistic analysis Articulatory synthesis and visual speech Concatenative synthesis and automated segmentation Prosodic analysis of natural speech Synthesis of prosody Evaluation and perception Systems and applications.

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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Text, Speech, and Dialogue
Text, Speech, and Dialogue

Author: Kamil Ekštein

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 303140498X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2023, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, during September 4–6, 2023. The 31 full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The conference attracts researchers not only from Central and Eastern Europe but also from other parts of the world. One of its goals has always been bringing together NLP researchers with various interests from different parts of the world and promoting their cooperation. One of the ambitions of the conference is, not only to deal with dialogue systems but also to improve dialogue among researchers in areas of NLP, i.e., among the “text” and the “speech” and the “dialogue” people.

Interactive Speech Technology
Interactive Speech Technology

Author: Chris Baber

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1482272512

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This book deals with two important technologies in human-computer interaction: computer generation of synthetic speech and computer recognition of human speech. It addresses the problems in generating speech with varying precision of articulation and how to convey moods and attitudes.