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| | Speech synthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. | | | Many systems based on formant synthesis technology generate artificial, robotic-sounding speech, and the output would never be mistaken for the speech of a real human. | | | Speech waveforms are generated from HMMs themselves based on Maximum likelihood criterion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
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| | 5.1 Overview |
| | An important issue of concern to speech synthesis technology is the variability of output speech. | | | In unit-selection synthesis, speech units are algorithmically extracted from a phonetically transcribed speech data set using objective measures based on acoustic and phonetic criteria. | | | Though this modeling is still one of the ultimate goals of synthesis research, advances in computer science have widened the research field to include Text-to-Speech (TtS) processing in which not only human speech generation but also text processing is modeled [AHK87]. |
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http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch5node3.html
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| | Speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition can thus be brought together by sharing a common knowledge base. | | | Title: On the analysis, synthesis and recognition of speech using the linear predictive principle. | | | Title: Evaluation of speech synthesis techniques in a comprehension task. |
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http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/speech_synthesis.txt
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| | Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 |
| | A Conforming User Agent is a Conforming Speech Synthesis Markup Language Processor that is capable of accepting an SSML document as input and producing a spoken output by using the information contained in the markup to render the document as intended by the author. | | | The fetching and caching behavior of SSML documents is defined by the environment in which the synthesis processor operates. | | | In some cases, synthesis processors may elect to ignore a given prosodic markup if the processor determines, for example, that the indicated value is redundant, improper or in error. |
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http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis
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| | History of speech synthesis, 1770 - 1970 |
| | At least since 1970, the further development of speech synthesis was closely associated with computer technology in general. | | | In research, speech synthesis is used to test this knowledge. | | | Although the effective length of the reed could be varied, this could not be done during speech production, so that the machine spoke on a monotone. |
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http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/kemplne.htm
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| | Speech Synthesis |
| | For computer generated speech output, this means limitations in the naturalness and intelligibility of synthetic speech. | | | However, progress in advanced computer speech interfaces is limited in part due to incomplete knowledge of the physics of speech production. | | | This is due in part to a limited understanding within the speech community of the fundamental physical mechanisms involved. |
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http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~sinder/thesis
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| | Festival at CMU |
| | Synthesis databases speech databases for using synthesis research, diphones, timit and domain dependent. | | | Speech synthesis demos of Festival and CMU related synthesis projects. | | | This page describes current projects in speech synthesis in the speech group and the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. |
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http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival
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| | Speech Synthesis Links |
| | Speech Synthesis Examples in the University of Stuttgart, Germany. | | | Collection of the speech related web-sites at the University of Essex, England. | | | IPOX All Prosodic Speech Synthesis Architecture, Institute for Perception Research (IPO) and Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory (OUPL). |
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http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~slemmett/speech.html
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| | GSLT course in Speech Synthesis |
| | Speech technology, see further Prerequisites below) who want to gain an applied understanding of different techniques for speech synthesis. | | | This signifies having a general overview of speech technology and some of its underlying theories and models, such as acoustic phonetics, text-to-speech synthesis and dialog systems. | | | This course is intended for students with a basic knowledge of speech technology (the equivalent of a Graduate School of Language Technology level 1 course in |
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http://www.speech.kth.se/~olov/Speech_Synth_Course_2005
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| | Apple - Mac OS X - Speech |
| | Combined with VoiceOver, speech synthesis will help turn the graphical user interface into a vocal user interface. | | | Apple’s leadership in speech recognition technology makes it possible by bringing a whole new dimension to the user interface: speech. | | | You don’t even have to train it to understand your voice, because it already understands you, from your very first word. |
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/speech
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| | Speech Technology - Home |
| | In the past, the speech technology group has worked on other projects, which have been successfully completed, and are either in shipping products (through the Speech Platforms product team), or have moved to the product development stage. | | | In Redmond we are working on multimodal user interfaces, and that helps us discover real problems that we need to solve to make speech recognition more useful. | | | Flash overview of speech recognition at MSR (click in "Microsoft Research" and "Speech technology"). |
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http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg
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| | Klatt, Review of text-to-speech conversion for English |
| | Example 18 Formant synthesis using diphone concatenation, by Rex Dixon and David Maxey, 1968. | | | Example 20 First prosodic synthesis by rule, by Ignatius Mattingly, 1968. | | | Example 13 Linear-prediction analysis and resynthesis of speech at a low-bit rate in the Texas Instruments Speek'n'Spell toy, Richard Wiggins, 1980. |
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http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/tts/research/history
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| | Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project (ss_eloq.htm) |
| | Between 1988 and 2001, the company worked on a variety of research projects in the areas of multi-voice, multi-dialect, and multi- language speech synthesis by rule. | | | The particular linguistic models developed, which included language-universal and dialect-universal components, form the basis for the ETI-Eloquence text-to-speech system, which has been marketed since 1995, and at the time of this writing, is available for twelve languages on multiple computer plat- forms, including small hand-held devices. | | | The DeltaTools interactive environment can be used to trace program (rule) execution and to experiment by listening to the synthetic speech output produced with different acoustic values. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_eloq.htm
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| | Praat "...a comprehensive speech analysis, synthesis, and manipulation package" for phoneticians and other sound researchers | | | Open-Source Speech Recognition Initiative (OSSRI) a new project that intends to "... | | | speechd-el Emacs speech output interface from Milan Zamazal |
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http://linux-sound.org/speech.html
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| | Speech Synthesis Projects Introduction |
| | Phonemes, the most logical synthesis unit, require very little storage space and allow for generation of an unlimited vocabulary. | | | The ASEL speech research group has several active synthesis projects. | | | First suggested by Peterson, Wang, and Silversten in 1958, diphones solve a number of problems that have been encountered with other synthesis units. |
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http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/Sp_syn/speech_syn.html
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| | Festival Speech Synthesis System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Flite is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University. | | | Flite: a small, fast run time synthesis engine | | | Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System
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| | Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis |
| | This can be esialy solved, if you use the logic of festival but the actual speech synthesis of mbrola. | | | Therefore, text to speech provides a means to save paper and have the computer read the draft out loud. | | | Basically they are developing very complex, yet precise heuristic algorithms for natural speech. |
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http://dot.kde.org/995252059
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| | Interactive Speech SC-6x Speech Synthesis Series |
| | When software development and speech editing are complete, the entire system can be tested on a speech emulation system. | | | CX offers up to six choices of data rates to help you optimize speech quality and memory cost. | | | This family is built around a 12.32 million instructions per second (MIPS) Digital Signal Processor (DSP) to enable advanced speech algorithms, yielding speech quality never before obtained at such low data rates. |
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http://www.sensoryinc.com/html/products/scseries.html
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| | Speech Synthesis for Music |
| | With the recent advances in computing and speech technology, we are finally moving beyond this limitation. | | | Most people think of speech synthesis as having your computer speak to you. | | | Although synthesis technology is well suited for these traditional operations, here at Microsoft Research we are continually exploring new and exciting applications of our base technologies. |
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http://research.microsoft.com/srg/whistmusic
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| | SpeechLinks: Speech Synthesis |
| | Emacspeak - A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs | | | A list of hyperlinks from the comp.speech FAQ related to speech synthesis. | | | Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology: Text-to-Speech Technologies. |
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http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section5/speechlinks.html
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| | SoftVoice, Inc. - Text-to-Speech Synthesis |
| | In addition, the SoftVoice formant synthesis algorithm, being continuous and splice free, does not suffer from such artifacts as glitches, gurgling, false consonants, chorusing, etc. that reduce intelligibility and increase listener fatigue. | | | Explore this page and see why the world's major computer and software companies have selected SVTTS for their applications. | | | More languages are under development and will be released in the near future. |
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http://www.text2speech.com
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| | Festvox: Home |
| | This project is part of the work at Carnegie Mellon University's speech group aimed at advancing the state of Speech Synthesis. | | | Patience and care, and a little interest in the subject of speech technology. | | | This may work on other platforms but many scripts, perhaps unnecessarily, depend on Unix utilties like, |
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http://festvox.org
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| | Multimodal Speech Synthesis |
| | This research is currently being carried out in the framework of the AdApt system. | | | Tobias Öhman presented his Licentiate Thesis: "Vision in Speech Technology. | | | The initial version of the demonstrator features five agents, each with their own area of expertise: Fritte (talks about FrittFr@m), Urban (the AdApt domain), Kattis (KTH trivia), August (Stockholm trivia and Strindberg quotes) and Holger2000 (spiced-up Holger presenting TMH/CTT research and doing NileCity impersonations) (May 24, 2000) |
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http://www.speech.kth.se/multimodal
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| | Downloads |
| | The Microsoft® Speech Server (MSS) 2004 R2 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 helps monitor, understand, and resolve issues and problems on the MSS platform. | | | It requires Intel® Dialogic® telephony boards, the Microsoft® Speech Server (Version 1.0), and the Windows® 2003 Server. | | | As Intel's implementation of a telephony interface module (TIM), the Intel NetMerge® Call Manager software provides fast and easy integration of the Microsoft® Speech Server with Intel telephony boards. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/default.mspx
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| | Q5.3: References/Books on Synthesis |
| | Thierry Dutoit, An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht), 1997, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 312 pages. | | | Principles of Computer Speech, London: Academic Press, Inc., 1982. | | | J.P.H. van Santen, R. Sproat, J. Olive, and J. Hirschberg, "Progress in Speech Synthesis", Springer, 1996. |
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http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/comp.speech/Section5/Q5.3.html
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| | Speech |
| | The Neural Net Speech Group at University of Karlsruhe | | | The Neural Net Speech Group at Carnegie Mellon | | | InSTIL2000: Integrating Speech Technology in (Language) Learning Conference |
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http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/speech.html
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| | Festival |
| | Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. | | | Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and HTML. | | | HTS hidden Markov model based synthesis engine from Nagoya Institute of Technology. |
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http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival
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| | E-Speech |
| | We provide software or dictionaries that can be used in your speech recognition or text-to-speech systems, as well as in systems with live call-center agents. | | | The system converts orthography to phonemes and stress marks and, based on E-Speech's proprietary subword concatenation algorithms, generates speech from its sound inventory. | | | This system illustrates the sound quality that our custom speech generation systems can offer you for domain-specific applications such as names, addresses, timetables, financial transactions. |
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http://www.espeech.com
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| | Alex Monaghan's Home Page - Computational Linguistics, Prosody, Speech Synthesis, PROLOG, Accent Placement, ..., ... |
| | Alex Monaghan's Home Page - Computational Linguistics, Prosody, Speech Synthesis, PROLOG, Accent Placement,..., Traditional Music, Piping, Music Media,..., Canoeing, Surfing, Malt Whisky,... |
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http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~alex
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| | Speech Synthesis Examples |
| | Please send me comments, corrections and further synthesis examples. | | | Comparison of various German TTS systems using the same text |
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http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/synthspeech/examples.html
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| | IBM Research Projects Text-to-Speech |
| | We have developed a novel TTS system, Naxpres, built on IBM's successful work in data-driven methodologies for speech recognition. | | | IBM Research labs all over the world have developed these examples of synthesized speech in their languages. | | | This demonstration of our work in unconstrained text-to-speech research allows users to submit text to be synthesized into speech. |
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http://www.research.ibm.com/tts
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| | Open Interface for Speech Synthesis |
| | The Open Interface for Speech Synthesis (OISS) is an interface to speech synthesis hardware and software for end-user applications under Unix. | | | To use OISS, you must have a Unix-like system, a recent version of the Python interpreter, and one of the following speech synthesizers: | | | It consists of a program called speechd which receives text and commands sent to /dev/speech and sends them to a speech synthesizer of the user's choice. |
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http://oiss.sourceforge.net
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| | Klatt's History of Speech Synthesis, Home |
| | See also the Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project by H. David Maxey for additional information on this topic. | | | For further details about the synthesis methods, see Klatt's article. | | | We obtained permission from Dan Martin (former General Editor, JASA) to reproduce these audio clips on the web as a public service. |
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http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/ASA/Contents.html
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| | E-Speech Speech Synthesis Products |
| | For information about our custom systems, visit our Custom Products page. | | | We also offer custom speech generation systems based on concatenation of large speech units, providing near-natural speech quality for limited domain applications, such as names, addresses, or timetables. | | | • Highest speech intelligibility, resulting in clear, natural-sounding speech |
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| | Speech Synthesis |
| | speechbiff - speech enabled program resembling biff by Tony J. White | | | The /dev/speech concept was originally inspired by ircspeak by | | | speech.irc v0.3 - Internet Relay Chat speech script for ircII, BitchX, EPIC, etc. |
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| | Synthesis of Speech |
| | These are class tutorial/exercises which use the various synthesizer interfaces. | | | These links provide some background to help understand the design of the Klatt synthesizer and access to the various synthesis interfaces. |
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http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis
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| | 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop |
| | This is the website for the ISCA 5th Speech Synthesis Workshop. | | | This workshop follows on from the previous workshops, Autrans 1990, Mohonk 1994, Jenolan Caves 1998, Pitlochry 2001 which aim to promote research and development of all aspects of speech synthesis. | | | Complete workshop proceedings are available here: ssw5_proceedings.pdf (10MB), individual papers are linked in with the program schedule. |
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http://www.ssw5.org
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| | Cepstral Text-to-Speech |
| | It allows them to carry a 2-inch device which can be plugged into any computer's USB port and provide instant access to speech enabled "talking" software. | | | CHORLEYWOOD, UK and PITTSBURGH, PA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/13/2005 -- SpliceCom, a UK company specialising in communication systems which combine voice, video and web-enabled IT applications at the desktop, has today announced a partnership agreement with Cepstral LLC, a speech technology company based in the USA. |
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http://www.cepstral.com
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| | AT&T Natural Voices - Demos (Interactive) |
| | For more information on what you are about to hear, see the ATandT Natural Voices Text-to-Speech Engine data sheet. | | | Here you have the opportunity to "test drive" what we believe is the most realistic, human-sounding synthetic speech system today. |
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http://elvis.naturalvoices.com/demos
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| | AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech |
| | to ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) by the web page for synthesis. | | | Please consult the FAQ page Diagnostics before sending details to tts-feedback. |
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http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
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