List of Figures

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures IX
4. List of Tables XIII
5. Preface XVII
6. A five year research program "Analysis and Synthesis of Speech" 1
7. Part I Input characteristics
8. Text features affecting listening performance in one way speech communication 13
9. TextScan: A preprocessing module for automatic text-to-speech conversion 27
10. Part II Linguistic aspects
11. Multiple paths to the lexicon 45
12. MORPA: A morpheme lexicon based morphological parser 67
13. MORPHON: Lexicon-based text-to-phoneme conversion and phonological rules 87
14. Pattern-driven morphological decomposition 101
15. Prosodic sentence analysis without exhaustive parsing 115
16. Prosodic analysis: The next generation 131
17. Part III Building blocks for speech synthesis
18. Speech synthesis with accented and unaccented diphones 147
19. Development of rule based analysis for text-to-speech 157
20. Part IV Acoustic-phonetic data and synthesis rules
21. How does speaking rate influence vowel formant track parameters? 171
22. From data to rules: A background survey 193
23. Collecting data for a speech database 207
24. Part V Prosody
25. Accentuation, information value and word duration: Effects on speech production, naturalness and sentence processing 225
26. Human and synthetic intonation: A case study 241
27. Sandhi processes in natural and synthetic speech 261
28. Part VI Signal analysis
29. Speech quality and speaker characteristics 279
30. Robust ARMA analysis for speech research 289
31. Part VII Implementations and evaluation
32. A stand-alone text-to-speech system 309
33. Speech Maker: A flexible framework for constructing text-to-speech systems 317
34. Evaluation of text-to-speech conversion for Dutch 339
35. Appendix 1: Institutes and individuals participating in ASSP 361
36. Appendix 2: Publications by SPIN-funded researchers 365
37. References 383
38. Name Index 407
39. Subject Index 413