Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances

Preface. Foreword. 1. Reducing Discontinuities at Synthesis Time for Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis. Baris Bozkurt, Thierry Dutoit, Romain Prudon, Christophe D'Alessandro and Vincent Pagel. Introduction. Shift-Only F0 Smoothing. Improving Quality of MBROLA Synthesis. Evaluation. Discussions and Conclusion. Bibliography. 2. Voice Quality Variation in a Long-Term Recording of a Single Speaker Speech Corpus. Hisashi Kawai and Minoru Tsuzaki. Introduction. Perceptual Experiment. Factors of Voice Quality Variation. Candidates of Acoustic Correlates. Prediction of Voice Quality Difference Scores. Summary. Bibliography. 3. Join Cost for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis. Jithendra Vepa and Simon King. Introduction. Previous Work. Spectral Distances. Perceptual Listening Tests. Results and Discussion. Conclusions. Bibliography. 4. Articulatory Modeling: A Role in Concatenative Text to Speech Synthesis. M. Mohan Sondhi and Daniel J. Sinder. Introduction. Articulatory Modeling. Rule-Based Control of the Parameters. Concatenative Articulatory Synthesis. Concluding Remarks. Bibliography. 5. Minimizing The Amount of Pitch Modification in Speech Synthesis. Esther Klabbers, Jan van Santen and Johan Wouters. Introduction. Speech Corpus Analysis. Text Corpus Analysis. Perceptual Experiment. Conclusion. Bibliography. 6. The Use of Speech Recognition Technology in Speech Synthesis. Mari Ostendorf and Ivan Bulyko. Introduction. Speech Recognition. ASR in Synthesis. Limitations. Speculations. Bibliography. 7. An HMM-Based Approach to Multilingual Speech Synthesis. Keiichi Tokuda, Heiga Zen and Alan W. Black. Introduction. HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System. F0 Pattern Modeling by HMM. Speech-Parameter Generation from an HMM. Implementation on Festival Architecture. Discussion. Conclusion. Bibliography. 8. Prosody Control For HMM-Based Japanese TTS. Koji Iwano, Masahiro Yamada, Taro Togawa and Sadaoki Furui. Introduction. Outline of HMM-Based TTS System. Prosody Generation Using the Quantification Theory (Type 1). Speech-Rate-Variable Synthesis Method. Conclusions. Bibliography. 9. Synthesizing Expressive Speech Overview: Challenges, and Open Questions. Murtaza Bulut, Shrikanth Narayanan and Lewis Johnson. Introduction. Theories of Emotion. Dimensions of Emotional Space. Speech Synthesis Methods. Emotional Speech Data Collection. Experimental Evaluation of Expressive Speech. Presentation of Results From Case Studies. Conclusion. Open Questions and Future Directions. Bibliography. 10. Unit Selection Synthesis of Prosody: Evaluation Using Diphone Transplantation. Romain Prudon, Christophe D'Alessandro and Philippe Boula de Mareuil. Introduction. Computing Prosody by Selection. Comparative Evaluation. Results. Conclusion. Bibliography. 11. Toward Expressive Synthetic Speech. Ellen Eide, Raimo Bakis, Wael Hamza and John F. Pitrelli. Introduction. A Pilot Study For Generating Expressive Speech. Generating Expressive Speech with Limited Resources. Rule-Based Methods for Generating Expressive Speech. Use of an Expressive TTS System. Assessing Performance. Conclusions. Bibliography. Footnotes. Copyright Forms. References. Index.