Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Download or read book Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis written by K. Sreenivasa Rao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis covers the specific aspects of prosody, mainly focusing on how to predict the prosodic information from linguistic text, and then how to exploit the predicted prosodic knowledge for various speech applications. Author K. Sreenivasa Rao discusses proposed methods along with state-of-the-art techniques for the acquisition and incorporation of prosodic knowledge for developing speech systems. Positional, contextual and phonological features are proposed for representing the linguistic and production constraints of the sound units present in the text. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers working in the area of speech processing.