| Kurzkommentar |
Speech synthesis is an essential component of any system relying on "natural" and intuitive human-machine communication. Speech synthesis systems are also used in phonetic research to gain further insight into speech production and acoustic properties of speech. This advanced course offers an introduction to text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems and strategies. Various approaches to speech synthesis are presented, including formant synthesis, concatenative synthesis, and state-of-the-art corpus-based unit selection synthesis. Linguistic text analysis and natural language processing modules typically included in TTS systems are covered as well. |
| Kommentar |
This is a research seminar with hands-on components. Participants will build a limited-domain speech synthesis system using Festival TTS and FestVox tools. Practical work will pertain to all TTS system components: linguistic text analysis, prosodic analysis and generation, and acoustic unit selection and concatenation. Seminar projects may be extended to master thesis projects. > > Entrance requirements: Successful participation in lecture on Text-to-Speech Synthesis (e.g., in winter 2012/2013). > |
