Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hirose, Keikichi (Editor), Tao, Jianhua (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics,
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Phonology.; Syntax.; Communication.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Communication Studies.

The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions).  A high level of quality has already been ac...

Table of Contents:

• Modeling of Prosody
• ProZed: A speech prosody editor for linguists, using analysis-by-synthesis
• On degree of freedom in prosody modeling
• Extraction, analysis and synthesis of Fujisaki model parameters
• Probabilistic modeling of pitch contours towards prosody synthesis and conversion
• Para- and non-linguistic issues of prosody
• Communicative speech synthesis as pan-linguistic prosody control
• Mandarin stress analysis and prediction for speech synthesis
• Expressivity in interactive speech synthesis; some para-linguistic and non-linguistic issues of speech prosody for conversational dialogue systems
• Temporally variable multi-attribute morphing of arbitrarily many voices for exploratory research of speech prosody
• Control of prosody in speech synthesis
• Statistical models for dealing with discontinuity of fundamental frequency
• Use of generation process model for improved control of fundamental frequency contours in HMM-based speech synthesis
• Tone Nucleus Model for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis
• Emphasis, word prominence, and continuous wavelet transform in the control of HMM based synthesis
• Exploiting alternatives for text-to-speech synthesis: from machine to human
• Prosody control and variation enhancement techniques for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis.