Speech Synthesis Literature

Books

Allen J., Hunnicutt S., Klatt D. (1987). From Text to Speech: The MITalk System. Cambridge University Press, Inc.
Cawley G. (1996). The Application of Neural Networks to Phonetic Modelling. PhD. Thesis, University of Essex, England.
Donovan R. (1996). Trainable Speech Synthesis. PhD. Thesis. Cambridge University Engineering Department, England.
Flanagan J. (1972). Speech Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York.
Flanagan J., Rabiner L. (Editors) (1973). Speech Synthesis. Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., Pennsylvania.
Kleijn K., Paliwal K. (Editors) (1998). Speech Coding and Synthesis. Elsevier Science B.V., The Netherlands.
Karjalainen M. (1978). An Approach to Hierarchical Information Process With an Application to Speech Synthesis by Rule. Doctorial Thesis. Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
Kleijn K., Paliwal K. (Editors) (1998). Speech Coding and Synthesis. Elsevier Science B.V., The Netherlands.
Laine U. K. (1989). Studies on Modeling of Vocal Tract Acoustics with Applications to Speech Synthesis. Doctorial Thesis. Acoustics Laboratory Report Series No 32, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Lemmetty S. (1999). Review of Speech Synthesis Technology. MSc. Thesis. Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Rabiner L., Shafer R. (1978). Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Prentice-Hall.
Santen J., Sproat R., Olive J., Hirschberg J. (editors) (1997). Progress in Speech Synthesis, Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Witten I. (1982). Principles of Computer Speech, Academic Press Inc.

Some Selected Articles

Breen A. (1992). Speech Synthesis Models: A Review. Electronics & Communication Engineering Journal, vol. 4: 19-31.
Dutoit T., Pagel V., Pierret N., Bataille F., Vrecken O. (1996). The MBROLA Project: Towards a Set of High Quality Speech Synthesizers Free of Use for Non Commercial Purposes. Proceedings of ICSLP 96 (3).
Goldstein M. (1995). Classification of Methods Used for Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems According to the Demands Placed on the Listener. Speech Communication vol. 16: 225-244.
Klatt D. (1980). Software for a Cascade/Parallel Formant Synthesizer. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA, Vol. 67: 971-995.
Klatt D. (1987) Review of Text-to-Speech Conversion for English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA vol. 82 (3): 737-793.
Klatt D., Klatt L. (1990). Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Voice Quality Variations Among Female and Male Listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA vol. 87 (2): 820-857.
Kraft V., Portele T. (1995). Quality Evaluation of Five German Speech Synthesis Systems. Acta Acustica 3 (1995): 351-365.
Logan J., Greene B., Pisoni D. (1989). Segmental Intelligibility of Synthetic Speech Produced by Rule. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA vol. 86 (2): 566-581.
Moulines E., Laroche J. (1995). Non-Parametric Techniques for Pitch-Scale Modification of Speech. Speech Communication 16 (1995): 175-205.
Murray I., Arnott L. (1993). Toward the Simulation of Emotions in Synthetic Speech: A Review of the Literature on Human Vocal Emotion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA vol. 93 (2): 1097-1108.
Rahim M., Goodyear C., Kleijn B., Schroeter J., Sondhi M. (1993). On the Use of Neural Networks in Articulatory Speech Synthesis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA vol. 93 (2): 1109-1121.
Sagisaga Y. (1990). Speech Synthesis from Text. IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 28 1, pp. 35-41, 55.
Schroeder M. (1993). A Brief History of Synthetic Speech. Speech Communication vol. 13, pp. 231-237.
Taylor P., Isard A. (1997). SSML: A Speech Synthesis Markup Language. Speech Communication vol. 21: 123-133.

Some Selected Conference Papers (under construction)

Dutoit T., Pagel V., Pierret N., Bataille F., Vrecken O. (1996). The MBROLA Project: Towards a Set of High Quality Speech Synthesizers Free of Use for Non Commercial Purposes. Proceedings of ICSLP 96 (3).
Beskow J. (1996). Talking Heads - Communication, Articulation and animation. Proceedings of Fonetik-96: 53-56.
Beskow J., Dahlquist M., Granström B., Lundeberg M., Spens K-E.,. Öhman T. (1997). The Teleface Project - Disability, Feasibility, and Intelligibility. Proceedings of Fonetik97, Swedish Fonetics Conf., Umea, Sweden. <http://www.speech.kth.se/~magnusl/teleface_f97.html>
Beskow K., Elenius K., McGlashan S. (1997). The OLGA Project: An Animated Talking Agent in a Dialogue System. Proceedings of Eurospeech 97. <http://www.speech.kth.se/multimodal/papers/>
Gaved M. (1993). Pronunciation and Text Normalisation in Applied Text-to-Speech Systems. Proceedings of Eurospeech 93 (2): 897-900.
Hess W. (1992). Speech Synthesis - A Solved Problem? Proceedings of EUSIPCO 92 (1): 37-46.
Heuft B., Portele T., Rauth M. (1996). Emotions in Time Domain Synthesis. Proceedings of ICSLP 96 (3).
Jekosch U. (1992). The Cluster-Identification Test. Proceedings of ICSLP 92 (1): 205-208.
Jekosch U. (1993). Speech Quality Assessment and Evaluation. Proceedings of Eurospeech 93 (2): 1387-1394.
Karjalainen M., Altosaar T. (1991). Phoneme Duration Rules for Speech Synthesis by Neural Networks. Proceedings of Eurospeech 91 (2): 633-636.
Karjalainen M., Altosaar T., Vainio M. (1998). Speech Synthesis Using Warped Linear Prediction and Neural Networks. Proceedings of ICASSP 98.
Klatt D. (1982). The Klattalk Text-to-Speech Conversion System. Proceedings of ICASSP 82 (3): 1589-1592.
Laine U. (1982). PARCAS, a New Terminal Analog Model for Speech Synthesis. Proceedings of ICASSP 82 (2).
Laine U., Karjalainen M., Altosaar T. (1994). Warped Linear Prediction (WLP) in Speech Synthesis and Audio Processing. Proceedings of ICASSP94 (3): 349-352.
Le Goff B., Benoit C. (1996). A Text-to-Audiovisual-Speech Synthesizer for French. Proceedings of ICSLP96.
Lehtinen L., Karjalainen M. (1989). Individual Sounding Speech Synthesis by Rule Using the Microphonemic Method. Proceedings of Eurospeech 89 (2): 180-183.
Macon M., Clements C. (1996). Speech Concatenation and Synthesis Using an Overlap-Add Sinusoidal Model. Proceedings of ICASSP 96: 361-364.
Macon M., Jensen-Link L., Oliverio J., Clements M., George E. (1997). A Singing Voice Synthesis System Based on Sinusoidal Modeling. Proceedings of ICASSP97.
Möbius B., Sproat R., Santen J., Olive J. (1997). The Bell Labs German Text-to-Speech System: An Overview. Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology vol. 5: 2443-2446.
Pols L. (1994). Voice Quality of Synthetic Speech: Representation and Evaluation. Proceedings of ICSLP 94 (3): 1443-1446.
Sproat R., Taylor P., Tanenblatt M., Isard A. (1997). A Markup Language for Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Proceedings of Eurospeech 97.
Tatham M., Lewis E. (1996). Improving Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Proceedings of ICSLP 96 (3).
Valbret H., Moulines E., Tubach J. (1991). Voice Transformation Using PSOLA Techique. Proceedings of Eurospeech 91 (1): 345-348.

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