[1] From: Lou Burnard <lou@ermine.ox.ac.uk> (7)
Subject: PALC97 Conference Report
[2] From: "Charles L. Creegan" <ccreegan@ncwc.edu> (5)
Subject: electronic publications
[3] From: Jean Ve'ronis <veronis@univ-aix.fr> (69)
Subject: Book: Text-to-speech synthesis
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:22:54 +0100 (BST)
From: Lou Burnard <lou@ermine.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: PALC97 Conference Report
A short impressionistic report of a conference on "Practical
Applications in Language Corpora", held in Lodz (Poland) earlier
this month, is now available from
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/reports/9704lodz.htm
The standard disclaimers apply: errors and ommissions gratefully received.
Warmest thanks to the organizers for inviting me, and to them and all who
attended for making it such a pleasant occasion.
Lou Burnard
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:11:19 -0400
From: "Charles L. Creegan" <ccreegan@ncwc.edu>
Subject: electronic publications
Willard, under your "overview of electronic publication" hat you'll be
interested in the electronic pre/coprint arrangement of the Alonzo Church
papers. See their website: <http://www.alonzo.org/>
-- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan[Suggestion taken, with many thanks. The Overview mentioned above is at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/overview.html>. --WM]
--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 16:13:29 +0100 From: Jean Ve'ronis <veronis@univ-aix.fr> Subject: Book: Text-to-speech synthesis
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KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 3 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis
AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS
by Thierry Dutoit Facult=E9 Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
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"An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis" is a comprehensive=20 introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech=20 synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and=20 the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses=20 on digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative=20 approach. Both parts of the text guide the reader through the material=20 in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way.
This is the first book to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the=20 perspective of two different engineering approaches. The book will be of=20 interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech=20 communication, in both academia and industry.=20
CONTENTS
1. Introduction.=20
Part One: From Text to its Narrow Phonetic Transcription.
2. Grammars, Inference, Parsing, and Transduction.=20 3. NLP Architectures for TTS Synthesis. 4. Morpho-Syntactic Analysis. 5. Automatic Phonetization. 6. Automatic Prosody Generation.
Part Two: From Narrow Phonetic Transcription to Speech.
7. Synthesis Strategies. 8. Linear Prediction Synthesis. 9. Hybrid Harmonic/Stochastic Synthesis. 10. Time-Domain Algorithms. 11. Conclusions and Perspectives.
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PREVIOUS VOLUMES
Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996
Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997
Check the series Web page for future publications:
http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB
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AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS Thierry Dutoit
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht=20
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7 April 1997, 312 pp. NLG 170.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 63.00 =20
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