TY - GEN
T1 - When will synthetic speech sound human
T2 - 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
AU - Van Santen, Jan
AU - Macon, Michael
AU - Cronk, Andrew
AU - Hosom, Paul
AU - Kain, Alexander
AU - Pagel, Vincent
AU - Wouters, Johan
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Text-to-speech synthesis research has moved away from building general purpose systems based on an understanding of human language and speech production towards building systems based on statistical algorithms applied to large text and speech corpora, and, recently, towards building such systems for specific domains. Despite substantial progress, the overall quality of even the best systems is often still inadequate for broad user acceptance in applications that cannot also be handled with simple phrase splicing. This tutorial paper analyzes which problems must be addressed to achieve the goal of generating naturalsounding speech in limited domains in a cost-effective way, and the roles of data and rules as we work towards solutions.
AB - Text-to-speech synthesis research has moved away from building general purpose systems based on an understanding of human language and speech production towards building systems based on statistical algorithms applied to large text and speech corpora, and, recently, towards building such systems for specific domains. Despite substantial progress, the overall quality of even the best systems is often still inadequate for broad user acceptance in applications that cannot also be handled with simple phrase splicing. This tutorial paper analyzes which problems must be addressed to achieve the goal of generating naturalsounding speech in limited domains in a cost-effective way, and the roles of data and rules as we work towards solutions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85009080972
T3 - 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
BT - 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
PB - International Speech Communication Association
Y2 - 16 October 2000 through 20 October 2000
ER -