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From: hill@salab1.psych.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
Subject: Re: Speech synthesis chips? Text conversion rules?
Summary: References to get into text-to-speech
Message-ID: <Nov17.035105.20325@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Sender: David R. Hill
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 03:51:05 GMT
References: <3adc12$919@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>
Organization: CS Dept. U of Calgary
Keywords: references, text-to-speech
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In article <3adc12$919@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>,
T.M. Bailey <T.M.Bailey@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
>I am trying to start a project on speech synthesis, and I require the following 
>information to allow me to continue.
>
>Rules for the conversion of text to phoneme's, rules for the conversion of text 
>to allophones, rules for the conversion of text to diphones.  All, and any 
>information relating to the above, i.e. sources, or the actual data will be 
>greatly received.  I'm sorry that I can't be more specific, but at the present 
>moment in time I am undecided as to the choice of chip I am going to use.  Any 
>comments relating to there ease of use etc. will also be useful.
>
>I also require, data relating to the chips which allow phoneme-to-speech, and 
>allophones-to-speech, and diphone-to-speech.  It would be helpful, if people 
>could reply who have use chips, with their comments on the chips performance, 
>ease of use etc. other information is the sources for these chips in low 
>quantities, I only require 2 or 3 of these chips.
>
>Many thanks in anticipation.
>
>T.M.Bailey@newcastle.ac.uk

A useful place to start might be with the following books and conference
proceedings

Books:
Allen, J. Hunnicutt, M.S. & Klatt, D.  "From text to speech: The MITalk
system. Cambridge University Press 1987

Flanagan, J.L. & Rabiner, L.R. Speech Synthesis.  Dowden Hutchinson & Ross
1973 (good collection of background papers: OOP but no doubt available
in libraries)

Jones, D. An outline of English phonetics. Heffer, Cambridge, UK first
published 1918.  This is a classic.(I have the 9th. edition 1967; the book
may well still be in print and is certainly in libraries).

O'Connor, J.D. Phonetics.  1973 (reprinted 1991)  (Another classic.  Both
this and Jones' book are concerned with phonetics, not speech synthesis,
but you will not regret reading both books--the background they give is
vital to sound research on machine synthesis, IMHO)

Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing 1992 (ICSLP 92)
Banff, Alberta, Canada Oct 12-16
two volumes.  Copies were obtainable from the Dept. of Linguistics, U of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E7 (Ph: 403-492-3434).  This is an
excellent collection of up-to-date papers on the state on the art in
(amongst other things) speech synthesis & speech recognition by machine.

Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing 1994 (ICSLP 94)
Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 18-22
four volumes.  Copies should be  obtainable from the publication chair:
Nobuhiko KITAWAKI, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, 3-9-11 Midori-cho,
Musashino, Tokyo 180, Japan (Ph: +81-298-54-5484, Fx: +81-298-58-5939)
This is the most up-to-date collection papers on the state on the art in
(amongst other things) speech synthesis & speech recognition by machine.

Witten, I.H. Principles of Computer Speech.  Academic Press 1982. (It is a pity
there is not a new edition of this excellent introduction.  Rumour
says one may become available).


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