An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis /

An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction; Dutoit 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...

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Main Author: Dutoit, Thierry
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1997]
Series:Text, speech, and language technology ; v. 3.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction; Dutoit 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 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 285 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789401157308 (electronic bk.)
9401157308 (electronic bk.)