1. History of speech synthesis
Text-to-speech has a long history: for example, the first autonomous automatic speech synthesis system in French, LIMSI's Icophone V, dates back to 1974. However, this is still a very active field of research. Current work focuses on both text comprehension and the reproduction of natural, personalized and expressive speech. Applications are multiplying. Readers wishing to explore the concepts presented in this article in greater depth can consult the references in the documentation section.
The general architecture of a synthesis system is thus made up of these two main parts (figure 1 ). The main modules corresponding to these processes are described in this article. Although all the examples quoted below are taken from French, it is important to emphasize...
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Bibliography
- (1) - SPROAT (R.), MOEBIUS (B.), MAEDA (K.), TZOUKERMANN (E.) - Multilingual text analysis. - Dans Multilingual Text-To-Speech Synthesis – The Bell Labs Approach, SPROAT (R.) et coll. éd., Kluwer Academic Publishers (1998). Ce livre décrit en détail les procédures de synthèse de l'anglais et d'autres langues, et donne une introduction au...
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Acapela is the new name of the group formed by BaBel Technologies SA and Babel-Infovox AB, which also absorbed ELAN speech. Acapela offers a wide range of multilingual synthesis solutions, initially developed through research at the Royal Institute of Technology...
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Recent developments in the techniques presented here are regularly the subject of articles.
In journals devoted to speech processing:
• IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing ;
• Speech Communication ;
• Computer Speech and Language ;
• EURASIP Journal...
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