Progress in Speech Synthesis

I Signal Processing and Source Modeling.- 1 Section Introduction. Recent Approaches to Modeling the Glottal Source for TTS.- 2 Synthesizing Allophonic Glottalization.- 3 Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Dynamic Control of Source Parameters.- 4 Modification of the Aperiodic Component of Speech Signals for Synthesis.- 5 On the Use of a Sinusoidal Model for Speech Synthesis in Text-to-Speech.- II Linguistic Analysis.- 6 Section Introduction. The Analysis of Text in Text-to-Speech Synthesis.- 7 Language-Independent Data-Oriented Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion.- 8 All-Prosodic Speech Synthesis.- 9 A Model of Timing for Nonsegmental Phonological Structure.- 10 A Complete Linguistic Analysis for an Italian Text-to-Speech System.- 11 Discourse Structural Constraints on Accent in Narrative.- 12 Homograph Disambiguation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis.- III Articulatory Synthesis and Visual Speech.- 13 Section Introduction. Talking Heads in Speech Synthesis.- 14 Section Introduction. Articulatory Synthesis and Visual Speech.- 15 Speech Models and Speech Synthesis.- 16 A Framework for Synthesis of Segments Based on Pseudoarticulatory Parameters.- 17 Biomechanical and Physiologically Based Speech Modeling.- 18 Analysis-Synthesis and Intelligibility of a Talking Face.- 19 3D Models of the Lips and Jaw for Visual Speech Synthesis.- IV Concatenative Synthesis and Automated Segmentation.- 20 Section Introduction. Concatenative Synthesis.- 21 A Mixed Inventory Structure for German Concatenative Synthesis.- 22 Prosody and the Selection of Source Units for Concatenative Synthesis.- 23 Optimal Coupling of Diphones.- 24 Automatic Speech Segmentation for Concatenative Inventory Selection.- 25 The Aligner: Text-to-Speech Alignment Using Markov Models.- V Prosodic Analysis of Natural Speech.- 26 Section Introduction. Prosodic Analysis: A Dual Track?.- 27 Section Introduction. Prosodic Analysis of Natural Speech.- 28 Automatic Extraction of F0 Control Rules Using Statistical Analysis.- 29 Comparing Approaches to Pitch Contour Stylization for Speech Synthesis.- 30 Generation of Pauses Within the z-score Model.- 31 Duration Study for the Bell Laboratories Mandarin Text-to-Speech System.- 32 Synthesizing German Intonation Contours.- 33 Effect of Speaking Style on Parameters of Fundamental Frequency Contour.- VI Synthesis of Prosody.- 34 Section Introduction. Text and Prosody.- 35 Section Introduction. Phonetic Representations for Intonation.- 36 Computational Extraction of Lexico-Grammatical Information for Generation of Swedish Intonation.- 37 Parametric Control of Prosodic Variables by Symbolic Input in TTS Synthesis.- 38 Prosodic and Intonational Domains in Speech Synthesis.- 39 Speaking Styles: Statistical Analysis and Synthesis by a Text-to-Speech System.- VII Evaluation and Perception.- 40 Section Introduction. Evaluation Inside or Assessment Outside?.- 41 A Structured Way of Looking at the Performance of Text-to-Speech Systems.- 42 Evaluation of a TTS-System Intended for the Synthesis of Names.- 43 Perception of Synthetic Speech.- VIII Systems and Applications.- 44 Section Introduction. A Brief History of Applications.- 45 A Modular Architecture for Multilingual Text-to-Speech.- 46 High-Quality Message-to-Speech Generation in a Practical Application.