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Contents
II Synthesis
7 Survey of speech synthesis technology
7.1 Overview
7.2 Background
7.3 Synthesis techniques
7.4 Applications
8 The phonological component
8.1 Overview
8.2 Input representation for a sentence
8.3 Comparison between ideal synthesis input and system performance
8.4 Stress rules
8.5 Rules of segmental phonology
8.6 Pauses
8.7 Evaluation of the analysis modules
9 The prosodic component
9.1 Overview
9.2 Segmental durations
10 The fundamental frequency generator
10.1 Overview
10.2 Input
10.3 OQutput
10.4 The O’Shaughnessy fundamental frequency algorithm
10.5 Adjustments to the O’Shaughnessy algorithm
10.6 Potential improvements from additional syntactic information
11 The phonetic component
11.1 Overview
11.2 “Synthesis-by-analysis” of consonant-vowel syllables
11.3 General rules for the synthesis of phonetic sequences
11.4 Summary
12 The Klatt formant synthesizer
12.1 Overview
12.2 Vocal tract transfer functions
12.3 Radiation characteristic
13 Some measures of intelligibility and comprehension
