LEADER 03312oam 2200517zu 450 001 9910142643503321 005 20220610195642.0 010 $a9786610554690 010 $a0-470-84594-5 010 $a1-280-55469-X 035 $a(CKB)111056485558362 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000079884 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11110934 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000079884 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10076354 035 $a(PQKB)11495076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5247686 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5247686 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL55469 035 $a(OCoLC)291000111 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485558362 100 $a20160829d2001 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImprovements in speech synthesis: cost 258: cost 258: the naturalness of synthetic speech 205 $a1st ed. 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cJohn Wiley & Sons Incorporated$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (396 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-471-49985-4 311 $a0-470-85235-6 330 $aNaturalness in synthetic speech is one of the most intractable problems in information technology today. Although speech synthesis systems have improved considerably over the last 20 years, they rarely sound entirely like human speakers. Why is this so, and what can be done about it? * Prosodic processing must be rendered more varied and more appropriate to the speech situation* Timing, melodic control and the relationships between the various prosodic parameters need increased attention* Signal processing systems must be developed and perfected that are capable of generating more than just one voice from a database* A better understanding must be achieved of what distinguishes one voice from another, and of how speech styles differ between simply reading aloud numbers and sentences and their use in interactive speech * New evaluation methodologies should be developed to provide objective and subjective measurements of the intelligibility of the synthetic speech and the cognitive load imposed upon the listener by impoverished stimuli * Adequate text markup systems must be proposed and tested with multiple languages in real-world situations* Further research is required to integrate speech synthesis systems into larger natural-language processing systems Improvements in Speech Synthesis presents the latest research in the above areas. Contributors include speech synthesis specialists from 16 countries, with experience in the development of systems for 12 European languages. This volume emerges from a four-year European COST project focussed on "The Naturalness of Synthetic Speech", and will be a valuable text for everyone involved in speech synthesis. 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a621.399 700 $aKeller$b Eric$0897208 702 $aBailly$b G 702 $aHuckvale$b M 712 02$aEuropean Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (Organization).$bCOST 258. 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910142643503321 996 $aImprovements in Speech Synthesis: Cost 258: Cost 258: the Naturalness of Synthetic Speech$92279463 997 $aUNINA