Description
Book SynopsisContaining material resulting from many years' teaching and research, this book provides a comprehensive account of the theory of speech.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: Current Work.
1. High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis.
2. Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status.
3. Text-To-Speech.
4. Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?
5. Low-Level Synthesis Potential.
Part II: A New Direction for Speech Synthesis.
6. A View of Naturalness.
7. Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels.
8. Variability and System Integrity.
9. Automatic Speech Recognition.
Part III: High-Level Control.
10. The Need for High-Level Control.
11. The Input to High-Level Control.
12. Problems for Automatic Text Markup.
Part IV: Areas for Improvement.
13. Filling Gaps.
14. Using Different Units.
15. Waveform Concatenation Systems: Naturalness and Large Databases.
16. Unit Selection Systems.
Part V: Markup.
17. VoiceXML.
18. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML).
19. SABLE.
20. The Need for Prosodic Markup.
Part VI: Strengthening the High-Level Model.
21. Speech.
22. Basic Concepts.
23. Underlying Basic Disciplines: Expression Studies.
24. Labelling Expressive/Emotive Content.
25. The Proposed Model.
26. Types of Model.
Part VII: Expanded Static and Dynamic Modelling.
27. The Underlying Linguistics System.
28. Planes for Synthesis.
Part VIII: The Prosodic Framework, Coding and Intonation.
29. The Phonological Prosodic Framework.
30. Sample Code.
31. XML Coding.
32. Prosody: General.
33. Phonological and Phonetic Models of Intonation.
Part IX: Approaches to Natural-Sounding Synthesis.
34. The General Approach.
35. The Expression Wrapper in XML.
36. Advantages of XML in Wrapping.
37. Considerations in Characterising Expression/Emotion.
38. Summary.
Part X: Concluding Overview.
References.
Author Index.
Index.
