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Spoken Language Generation and Understanding pp 397–412Cite as

An Over-View of Speech Synthesis

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Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((ASIC,volume 59))

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This paper gives a survey of the main present day approaches to speech synthesis. Several processing levels are envisioned, according to the nature of the input: acoustical synthesis, phonetic and prosodic command, phonetic and prosodic transcription of written text, as well as phonetic message generation from a conceptual formula, and synthesis by words. Intelligibility and quality of synthetic voices cannot be estimated without referring to the specific constraints and problems encountered at each processing level.

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    Jean-Sylvain Lienard

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Lienard, JS. (1980). An Over-View of Speech Synthesis. In: Simon, J.C. (eds) Spoken Language Generation and Understanding. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9091-3_19

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