Analysis and Synthesis of Speech

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This volume is intended to give colleagues in the field of speech technology an overall idea of the work involved in the research program Analysis and Synthesis of Speech (ASSP). This five-year program, 1985-1990, was conducted by six speech research groups in the Netherlands. The researchers' contributions to this volume offer systematic insight into the procedures and techniques employed in the development of a laboratory system for high-quality text-to-speech conversion.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- A five year research program "Analysis and Synthesis of Speech" / Cohen, Antonie / Nooteboom, Sieb G. -- Part I Input characteristics -- Text features affecting listening performance in one way speech communication / Petric, Irena / Bergh, Huub van den -- TextScan: A preprocessing module for automatic text-to-speech conversion / Holsteijn, Yvonne van -- Part II Linguistic aspects -- Multiple paths to the lexicon / Lammens, Johan M. -- MORPA: A morpheme lexicon based morphological parser / Heemskerk, Josée S. / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- MORPHON: Lexicon-based text-to-phoneme conversion and phonological rules / Nunn, Anneke M. / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- Pattern-driven morphological decomposition / Reizevoort, Jeroen / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- Prosodic sentence analysis without exhaustive parsing / Quené, Hugo / Kager, René -- Prosodic analysis: The next generation / Dirksen, Arthur / Quené, Hugo -- Part III Building blocks for speech synthesis -- Speech synthesis with accented and unaccented diphones / Drullman, Rob / Collier, René C. -- Development of rule based analysis for text-to-speech / Loman, Henk / Boves, Louis -- Part IV Acoustic-phonetic data and synthesis rules -- How does speaking rate influence vowel formant track parameters? / Son, Rob J. J. H. van / Pols, Louis C. W. -- From data to rules: A background survey / Bosch, Louis F. M. ten -- Collecting data for a speech database / Zanten, Ellen van / Damen, Laurens / Houten, Els van -- Part V Prosody -- Accentuation, information value and word duration: Effects on speech production, naturalness and sentence processing / Eefting, Wieke / Nooteboom, Sieb G. -- Human and synthetic intonation: A case study / Terken, Jacques . B. -- Sandhi processes in natural and synthetic speech / Jongenburger, Willy / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- Part VI Signal analysis -- Speech quality and speaker characteristics / Eggen, Berry / Nooteboom, Sieb G. -- Robust ARMA analysis for speech research / Veth, Johan de / Brouwers, Wim van Golstein / Boves, Louis -- Part VII Implementations and evaluation -- A stand-alone text-to-speech system / Deliege, René J. H. -- Speech Maker: A flexible framework for constructing text-to-speech systems / Leeuwen, Hugo C. van / Lindert, Enrico te -- Evaluation of text-to-speech conversion for Dutch / Bezooijen, René van / Pols, Louis C. W. -- Appendix 1: Institutes and individuals participating in ASSP -- Appendix 2: Publications by SPIN-funded researchers -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index