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.

Table of Contents

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