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Dedication

This book is dedicated to the technical team at Rhetorical Systems

Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer. Giving an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis technology, it assumes no specialised prior knowledge.

Introductory chapters on linguistics, phonetics, signal processing and speech signals lay the foundation, with subsequent material explaining how this knowledge is put to use in building practical systems that generate speech. The very latest techniques such as unit selection, hidden-Markov-model synthesis and statistical text analysis are covered, and explanations of the more-traditional techniques such as format synthesis and synthesis...