About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Haskins Laboratories, Microsoft Speech API, Speech generating device, Philip Rubin, Articulatory synthesis, PlainTalk, Chinese speech synthesis, Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine, VoiceXML, Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips, WordQ+SpeakQ, Franklin Seaney Cooper, Microsoft Agent, IVONA, Comparison of speech synthesizers, Quack.com, Gnuspeech, Festival Speech Synthesis System, ESpeak, Pattern playback, Silent speech interface, Ignatius Mattingly, Currah, TuVox, Voice font, Microsoft text-to-speech voices, RIAS, Readspeaker, DECtalk, VoiceWeb, Inverse filter, Catherine Browman, CoolSpeech, Gunnar Fant, Phase vocoder, BrowseAloud, Voiceroid, FreeTTS, Text-to-voice, Speech Synthesis Markup Language, Microsoft Narrator, Source-filter model of speech production, Software Automatic Mouth, Voice browser, Sinewave synthesis, Dr. Sbaitso, Self-voicing, Concatenative synthesis, MBROLA, PSOLA, DialogOS, Microsoft Speech Server, AOLbyPhone, Odiogo, Echo 2, Talk It!, Phasor, SABLE. Excerpt: Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. Synthesized speech can be created by concatenating pieces of recorded speech that are stored in a database. Systems differ in the size of the stored speech units; a system that stores phones or diphones provides the largest output range, but may lack clarity. For specific usage domains, the storage of entire words or sentences allows for high-quality output. Alternatively, a synthesizer can incorporate a model of the vocal tract and other human voice characteristics to create a completely...
