An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis

One: Introduction. - 1. 1. What is speech made of?. - 1. 2. What is a TTS system?. - 1. 3. How do we read?. - 1. 4. Yet another speech synthesizer?. - 1. 5. Automatic reading: what for?. - References. - One From Text to Its Narrow Phonetic Transcription. - Two: Grammars Inference Parsing and Transduction. - Three: NLP Architectures for TTS Synthesis. - Four: Morpho-Syntactic Analysis. - Five: Automatic Phonetization. - Six: Automatic Prosody Generation. - Two From Narrow Phonetic Transcription to Speech. - Seven: Synthesis Strategies. - Eight: Linear Prediction Synthesis. - Nine: Hybrid Harmonic / Stochastic Synthesis. - Ten: Time-Domain Algorithms. - Eleven: Conclusions and Perspectives. Language: English