Speech Processing
by Computer
LECTURE 7
TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEMS
Objectives
By the end of the
session you should be able to:
·
explain the difference between speech coding and speech synthesis
·
describe the basic components of a text-to-speech system
·
list the main processing issues facing each component and have some idea
of how these problems are addressed
Outline
7. Text to Speech
Systems
7.1. Types of speech
synthesis system
7.1.1. Speech coding vs.
speech synthesis
7.1.2. Synthesis by rule
7.1.3. Synthesis from
corpora
7.2. Components of a
TTS system
7.2.1. Concept to text
7.2.2. Text
normalisation
7.2.3. Syntactic
analysis and phrasing
7.2.4. Pronunciation
7.2.5. Intonation
7.2.6. Phonetic
realisation
7.2.7. Durations
7.2.8. Signal generation
Reading
'Spoken
Output Technologies', Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language
Technology, Ed. Ron Cole, http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HTLsurvey/, Chapter 5.