Developments in speech synthesis / / Mark Tatham, Katherine Morton |
Autore | Tatham Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : J. Wiley, , c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource [358 pages] |
Disciplina | 006.54 |
Soggetto topico | Speech processing systems |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-24170-5
9786610241705 0-470-01260-9 0-470-01259-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DEVELOPMENTS IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How Good is Synthetic Speech?; Improvements Beyond Intelligibility; Continuous Adaptation; Data Structure Characterisation; Shared Input Properties; Intelligibility: Some Beliefs and Some Myths; Naturalness; Variability; The Introduction of Style; Expressive Content; Final Introductory Remarks; Part I Current Work; 1 High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis; 1.1 Differentiating Between Low-Level and High-Level Synthesis; 1.2 Two Types of Text; 1.3 The Context of High-Level Synthesis; 1.4 Textual Rendering; 2 Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status2.1 The Range of Low-Level Synthesisers Available; 2.1.1 Articulatory Synthesis; 2.1.2 Formant Synthesis; 2.1.3 Concatenative Synthesis; Units for Concatenative Synthesis; Representation of Speech in the Database; Unit Selection Systems: the Data-Driven Approach; Unit Joining; Cost Evaluation in Unit Selection Systems; Prosody and Concatenative Systems; Prosody Implementation in Unit Concatenation Systems; 2.1.4 Hybrid System Approaches to Speech Synthesis; 3 Text-To-Speech; 3.1 Methods; 3.2 The Syntactic Parse; 4 Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?4.1 The Competing Types; 4.2 The Theoretical Limits; 4.3 Upcoming Approaches; 5 Low-Level Synthesis Potential; 5.1 The Input to Low-Level Synthesis; 5.2 Text Marking; 5.2.1 Unmarked Text; 5.2.2 Marked Text: the Basics; 5.2.3 Waveforms and Segment Boundaries; 5.2.4 Marking Boundaries on Waveforms: the Alignment Problem; 5.2.5 Labelling the Database: Segments; 5.2.6 Labelling the Database: Endpointing and Alignment; Part II A New Direction for Speech Synthesis; 6 A View of Naturalness; 6.1 The Naturalness Concept; 6.2 Switchable Databases for Concatenative Synthesis6.3 Prosodic Modifications; 7 Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels; 7.1 Limitations in the Theory and Scope of Speech Synthesis; 7.1.1 Distinguishing Between Physical and Cognitive Processes; 7.1.2 Relationship Between Physical and Cognitive Objects; 7.1.3 Implications; 7.2 Intonation Contours from the Original Database; 7.3 Boundaries in Intonation; 8 Variability and System Integrity; 8.1 Accent Variation; 8.2 Voicing; 8.3 The Festival System; 8.4 Syllable Duration; 8.5 Changes of Approach in Speech Synthesis; 9 Automatic Speech Recognition9.1 Advantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.2 Disadvantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.3 Unit Selection Synthesis Compared with Automatic Speech Recognition; Part III High-Level Control; 10 The Need for High-Level Control; 10.1 What is High-Level Control?; 10.2 Generalisation in Linguistics; 10.3 Units in the Signal; 10.4 Achievements of a Separate High-Level Control; 10.5 Advantages of Identifying High-Level Control; 11 The Input to High-Level Control; 11.1 Segmental Linguistic Input; 11.2 The Underlying Linguistics Model; 11.3 Prosody; 11.4 Expression; 12 Problems for Automatic Text Markup |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143747203321 |
Tatham Mark | ||
Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : J. Wiley, , c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Developments in speech synthesis / / Mark Tatham, Katherine Morton |
Autore | Tatham Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : J. Wiley, , c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource [358 pages] |
Disciplina | 006.54 |
Soggetto topico | Speech processing systems |
ISBN |
1-280-24170-5
9786610241705 0-470-01260-9 0-470-01259-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DEVELOPMENTS IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How Good is Synthetic Speech?; Improvements Beyond Intelligibility; Continuous Adaptation; Data Structure Characterisation; Shared Input Properties; Intelligibility: Some Beliefs and Some Myths; Naturalness; Variability; The Introduction of Style; Expressive Content; Final Introductory Remarks; Part I Current Work; 1 High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis; 1.1 Differentiating Between Low-Level and High-Level Synthesis; 1.2 Two Types of Text; 1.3 The Context of High-Level Synthesis; 1.4 Textual Rendering; 2 Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status2.1 The Range of Low-Level Synthesisers Available; 2.1.1 Articulatory Synthesis; 2.1.2 Formant Synthesis; 2.1.3 Concatenative Synthesis; Units for Concatenative Synthesis; Representation of Speech in the Database; Unit Selection Systems: the Data-Driven Approach; Unit Joining; Cost Evaluation in Unit Selection Systems; Prosody and Concatenative Systems; Prosody Implementation in Unit Concatenation Systems; 2.1.4 Hybrid System Approaches to Speech Synthesis; 3 Text-To-Speech; 3.1 Methods; 3.2 The Syntactic Parse; 4 Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?4.1 The Competing Types; 4.2 The Theoretical Limits; 4.3 Upcoming Approaches; 5 Low-Level Synthesis Potential; 5.1 The Input to Low-Level Synthesis; 5.2 Text Marking; 5.2.1 Unmarked Text; 5.2.2 Marked Text: the Basics; 5.2.3 Waveforms and Segment Boundaries; 5.2.4 Marking Boundaries on Waveforms: the Alignment Problem; 5.2.5 Labelling the Database: Segments; 5.2.6 Labelling the Database: Endpointing and Alignment; Part II A New Direction for Speech Synthesis; 6 A View of Naturalness; 6.1 The Naturalness Concept; 6.2 Switchable Databases for Concatenative Synthesis6.3 Prosodic Modifications; 7 Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels; 7.1 Limitations in the Theory and Scope of Speech Synthesis; 7.1.1 Distinguishing Between Physical and Cognitive Processes; 7.1.2 Relationship Between Physical and Cognitive Objects; 7.1.3 Implications; 7.2 Intonation Contours from the Original Database; 7.3 Boundaries in Intonation; 8 Variability and System Integrity; 8.1 Accent Variation; 8.2 Voicing; 8.3 The Festival System; 8.4 Syllable Duration; 8.5 Changes of Approach in Speech Synthesis; 9 Automatic Speech Recognition9.1 Advantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.2 Disadvantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.3 Unit Selection Synthesis Compared with Automatic Speech Recognition; Part III High-Level Control; 10 The Need for High-Level Control; 10.1 What is High-Level Control?; 10.2 Generalisation in Linguistics; 10.3 Units in the Signal; 10.4 Achievements of a Separate High-Level Control; 10.5 Advantages of Identifying High-Level Control; 11 The Input to High-Level Control; 11.1 Segmental Linguistic Input; 11.2 The Underlying Linguistics Model; 11.3 Prosody; 11.4 Expression; 12 Problems for Automatic Text Markup |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830297103321 |
Tatham Mark | ||
Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : J. Wiley, , c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Developments in speech synthesis / / Mark Tatham, Katherine Morton |
Autore | Tatham Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource [358 pages] |
Disciplina | 006.5/4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MortonKatherine |
Soggetto topico | Speech processing systems |
ISBN |
1-280-24170-5
9786610241705 0-470-01260-9 0-470-01259-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DEVELOPMENTS IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How Good is Synthetic Speech?; Improvements Beyond Intelligibility; Continuous Adaptation; Data Structure Characterisation; Shared Input Properties; Intelligibility: Some Beliefs and Some Myths; Naturalness; Variability; The Introduction of Style; Expressive Content; Final Introductory Remarks; Part I Current Work; 1 High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis; 1.1 Differentiating Between Low-Level and High-Level Synthesis; 1.2 Two Types of Text; 1.3 The Context of High-Level Synthesis; 1.4 Textual Rendering; 2 Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status2.1 The Range of Low-Level Synthesisers Available; 2.1.1 Articulatory Synthesis; 2.1.2 Formant Synthesis; 2.1.3 Concatenative Synthesis; Units for Concatenative Synthesis; Representation of Speech in the Database; Unit Selection Systems: the Data-Driven Approach; Unit Joining; Cost Evaluation in Unit Selection Systems; Prosody and Concatenative Systems; Prosody Implementation in Unit Concatenation Systems; 2.1.4 Hybrid System Approaches to Speech Synthesis; 3 Text-To-Speech; 3.1 Methods; 3.2 The Syntactic Parse; 4 Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?4.1 The Competing Types; 4.2 The Theoretical Limits; 4.3 Upcoming Approaches; 5 Low-Level Synthesis Potential; 5.1 The Input to Low-Level Synthesis; 5.2 Text Marking; 5.2.1 Unmarked Text; 5.2.2 Marked Text: the Basics; 5.2.3 Waveforms and Segment Boundaries; 5.2.4 Marking Boundaries on Waveforms: the Alignment Problem; 5.2.5 Labelling the Database: Segments; 5.2.6 Labelling the Database: Endpointing and Alignment; Part II A New Direction for Speech Synthesis; 6 A View of Naturalness; 6.1 The Naturalness Concept; 6.2 Switchable Databases for Concatenative Synthesis6.3 Prosodic Modifications; 7 Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels; 7.1 Limitations in the Theory and Scope of Speech Synthesis; 7.1.1 Distinguishing Between Physical and Cognitive Processes; 7.1.2 Relationship Between Physical and Cognitive Objects; 7.1.3 Implications; 7.2 Intonation Contours from the Original Database; 7.3 Boundaries in Intonation; 8 Variability and System Integrity; 8.1 Accent Variation; 8.2 Voicing; 8.3 The Festival System; 8.4 Syllable Duration; 8.5 Changes of Approach in Speech Synthesis; 9 Automatic Speech Recognition9.1 Advantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.2 Disadvantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.3 Unit Selection Synthesis Compared with Automatic Speech Recognition; Part III High-Level Control; 10 The Need for High-Level Control; 10.1 What is High-Level Control?; 10.2 Generalisation in Linguistics; 10.3 Units in the Signal; 10.4 Achievements of a Separate High-Level Control; 10.5 Advantages of Identifying High-Level Control; 11 The Input to High-Level Control; 11.1 Segmental Linguistic Input; 11.2 The Underlying Linguistics Model; 11.3 Prosody; 11.4 Expression; 12 Problems for Automatic Text Markup |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910876759303321 |
Tatham Mark | ||
Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Guide to Speech Production and Perception [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Tatham Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 414/.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MortonKatherine |
Soggetto topico |
Phonetics
Speech perception Speech Journalism & Communications Languages & Literatures Communication & Mass Media Philology & Linguistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-13311-3
9786613133113 0-7486-3653-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Copyright; Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS SPEAKING; CHAPTER 2 - STUDYING SPEAKING; CHAPTER 3 - THE FOUNDATION RESEARCH; CHAPTER 4 - CONTEMPORARY MODEL BUILDING; CHAPTER 5 - THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS; CHAPTER 6 - ESSENTIALS IN DESCRIBING SPEECH; CHAPTER 7 - HEARING AND PERCEPTION; CHAPTER 8 - THEORIES OF SPEECH PERCEPTION; CHAPTER 9 - APPLICATIONS; CHAPTER 10 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK 1 - NON-ACOUSTICS; CHAPTER 11 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK II - ACOUSTICS; Conclusion; References; Definitions Index; Explanations Index; Author and Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457015503321 |
Tatham Mark | ||
Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Guide to Speech Production and Perception [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Tatham Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 414/.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MortonKatherine |
Soggetto topico |
Phonetics
Speech perception Speech Journalism & Communications Languages & Literatures Communication & Mass Media Philology & Linguistics |
ISBN |
1-283-13311-3
9786613133113 0-7486-3653-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Copyright; Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS SPEAKING; CHAPTER 2 - STUDYING SPEAKING; CHAPTER 3 - THE FOUNDATION RESEARCH; CHAPTER 4 - CONTEMPORARY MODEL BUILDING; CHAPTER 5 - THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS; CHAPTER 6 - ESSENTIALS IN DESCRIBING SPEECH; CHAPTER 7 - HEARING AND PERCEPTION; CHAPTER 8 - THEORIES OF SPEECH PERCEPTION; CHAPTER 9 - APPLICATIONS; CHAPTER 10 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK 1 - NON-ACOUSTICS; CHAPTER 11 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK II - ACOUSTICS; Conclusion; References; Definitions Index; Explanations Index; Author and Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781221803321 |
Tatham Mark | ||
Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Guide to Speech Production and Perception |
Autore | Tatham Mark |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 414/.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MortonKatherine |
Soggetto topico |
Phonetics
Speech perception Speech Journalism & Communications Languages & Literatures Communication & Mass Media Philology & Linguistics |
ISBN |
1-283-13311-3
9786613133113 0-7486-3653-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Copyright; Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS SPEAKING; CHAPTER 2 - STUDYING SPEAKING; CHAPTER 3 - THE FOUNDATION RESEARCH; CHAPTER 4 - CONTEMPORARY MODEL BUILDING; CHAPTER 5 - THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS; CHAPTER 6 - ESSENTIALS IN DESCRIBING SPEECH; CHAPTER 7 - HEARING AND PERCEPTION; CHAPTER 8 - THEORIES OF SPEECH PERCEPTION; CHAPTER 9 - APPLICATIONS; CHAPTER 10 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK 1 - NON-ACOUSTICS; CHAPTER 11 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK II - ACOUSTICS; Conclusion; References; Definitions Index; Explanations Index; Author and Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823717703321 |
Tatham Mark | ||
Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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