ESSLLI-2003 Introduction Speech Synthesis

Material (partially) included in the printed course material

Wagner, Petra: Slides presented at the ESSLLI 2003.

Hess, Wolfgang: Fundamentals of Speech Signal Processing, bilingual version (German, English), IKP, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, 2003.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter2: Short Time Analysis
Chapter 3: Short-Time spectral analysis
Chapter 4: From Sprectrum to Spectrogram.
Accompagnying slides

Dutoit, Thierry:"High Quality Text-To-Speech Synthesis of the French Language", PhD dissertation, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, TCTS Lab, Mons, Belgium, 1993.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Natural Language Processing Module
Chapter 3: The Digital Signal Processing Block
Chapter 8: The Digital Signal Processing Block
Chapter 9: Automatic Phonetization

Wagner, Petra: The synthesis of German contrastive focus, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-99), San Francisco, California, p.1529, 1999.

Pirker, Hannes: Speech Synthesis Markup Languages: An Overview and Comparison.

Rank Erhard, Pirker H.: Generating Emotional Speech with a Concatenative Synthesizer, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), Sydney, Australia, 1998.
[available online at http://www.ofai.at/cgi-bin/tr-online?number+98-26]

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