Analysis and Synthesis of Speech : : Strategic Research towards High-Quality Text-To-Speech Generation / / ed. by Louis C. Pols, Vincent J. van Heuven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bergh, Huub van den,; Bezooijen, René van,; Bosch, Louis F. M. ten,; Boves, Louis,; Brouwers, Wim van Golstein,; Cohen, Antonie,; Collier, René C.,; Damen, Laurens,; Deliege, René J. H.,; Dirksen, Arthur,; Drullman, Rob,; Eefting, Wieke,; Eggen, Berry,; Heemskerk, Josée S.,; Heuven, Vincent J. van,; Holsteijn, Yvonne van,; Houten, Els van,; Jongenburger, Willy,; Kager, René,; Lammens, Johan M.,; Leeuwen, Hugo C. van,; Lindert, Enrico te,; Loman, Henk,; Nooteboom, Sieb G.,; Nunn, Anneke M.,; Petrič, Irena,; Pols, Louis C. W.,; Quené, Hugo,; Reizevoort, Jeroen,; Son, Rob J. J. H. van,; Terken, Jacques Μ. B.,; Veth, Johan de,; Zanten, Ellen van,
• HerausgeberIn: Heuven, Vincent J. van,; Pols, Louis C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Speech Research ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-IV --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Preface --; A five year research program "Analysis and Synthesis of Speech" --; Part I Input characteristics --; Text features affecting listening performance in one way speech communication --; TextScan: A preprocessing module for automatic text-to-speech conversion --; Part II Linguistic aspects --; Multiple paths to the lexicon --; MORPA: A morpheme lexicon based morphological parser --; MORPHON: Lexicon-based text-to-phoneme conversion and phonological rules --; Pattern-driven morphological decomposition --; Prosodic sentence analysis without exhaustive parsing --; Prosodic analysis: The next generation --; Part III Building blocks for speech synthesis --; Speech synthesis with accented and unaccented diphones --; Development of rule based analysis for text-to-speech --; Part IV Acoustic-phonetic data and synthesis rules --; How does speaking rate influence vowel formant track parameters? --; From data to rules: A background survey --; Collecting data for a speech database --; Part V Prosody --; Accentuation, information value and word duration: Effects on speech production, naturalness and sentence processing --; Human and synthetic intonation: A case study --; Sandhi processes in natural and synthetic speech --; Part VI Signal analysis --; Speech quality and speaker characteristics --; Robust ARMA analysis for speech research --; Part VII Implementations and evaluation --; A stand-alone text-to-speech system --; Speech Maker: A flexible framework for constructing text-to-speech systems --; Evaluation of text-to-speech conversion for Dutch --; Appendix 1: Institutes and individuals participating in ASSP --; Appendix 2: Publications by SPIN-funded researchers --; References --; Name Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110879001; 9783110636895
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110879001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Louis C. Pols, Vincent J. van Heuven.