Progress in Speech Synthesis

by Jan P. Van Santen

Book Overview

For a machine to convert text into sounds that humans can understand as speech requires an enormous range of components, from abstract analysis of discourse structure to synthesis and modulation of the acoustic output. Work in the field is thus inherently interdisciplinary, involving linguistics, computer science, acoustics, and psychology. This collection of articles by leading researchers in each of the fields involved in text-to-speech synthesis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387947019
• ISBN13: 9780387947013
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.5"