Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

• Main Author: Rao, K. Sreenivasa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational linguistics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Computational Linguistics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.

Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis covers the specific aspects of prosody, mainly focusing on how to predict the prosodic information from linguistic text, and then how to exploit the predicted prosodic knowledge for various speech applications. Author K. Sreenivasa Rao discus...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prosody Knowledge for Speech Systems: A Review
• 3. Analysis of Durationsn of Sound Units
• 4. Modeling Duration
• 5. Modeling Intonation
• 6. Prosody Modification
• 7. Practical Aspects of Prosody Modification
• 8. Summary and Conclusions
• Appendix A. Coding Scheme Used to Represent Linguistic and Production Constraints.