An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 1-33

3. From Text to Its Narrow Phonetic Transcription

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-36

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   2. Grammars, Inference, Parsing and Transduction

      • Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 37-56

   3. NLP Architectures for TTS Synthesis

      • Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 57-70

   4. Morpho-Syntactic Analysis

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      Pages 71-104

   5. Automatic Phonetization

      • Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 105-128

   6. Automatic Prosody Generation

      • Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 129-174

4. From Narrow Phonetic Transcription to Speech

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-176

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   2. Synthesis Strategies

      • Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 177-200

   3. Linear Prediction Synthesis

      • Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 201-228

   4. Hybrid Harmonic / Stochastic Synthesis

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      Pages 229-250

   5. Time-Domain Algorithms

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      Pages 251-270

   6. Conclusions and Perspectives

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      Pages 271-279

5. Back Matter

   Pages 281-286

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An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses on digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative approach. Both parts of the text guide the reader through the material in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way.
This is the first book to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the perspective of two different engineering approaches. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech communication, in both academia and industry.

• algorithms
• calculus
• communication
• digital signal processing
• grammar
• natural language
• natural language processing
• Parsing
• signal processing
• speech synthesis

• Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium

  Thierry Dutoit

Thierry Dutoit graduated as an electrical engineer and PhD from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. He is now assistant professor at the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons and consultant for AT&T Labs Research in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA. He is the author of the widely acclaimed MBROLA high quality free speech synthesis project.

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