Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis : Modeling and Generation of Prosody for High Quality and Flexible Speech Synthesis, Hardcover by Hirose, Keikichi (EDT); Tao, Jianhua (EDT), ISBN 366245257X, ISBN-13 9783662452578, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

<p>The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style.</p><p>Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. Th offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.</p>