An Introduction to TexttoSpeech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction tothe subject. The author treats two areas of speech synthesis Part I of thebook conce... » 

An Introduction to TexttoSpeech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction tothe subject. The author treats two areas of speech synthesis Part I of thebook concerns natural language processing and the inherent problems it presentsfor speech synthesis Part II focuses on digital signal processing with anemphasis on the concatenative approach. Both parts of the text guide the readerthrough the material in a stepbystep easytofollow way. This is the firstbook to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the perspective of twodifferent engineering approaches. The book will be of interest to researchersand students in phonetics and speech communication in both academia andindustry. «