Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis

In this chapter, we present the main trends in corpus-based speech synthesis, assuming a stream of phonemes and prosodic target as input. From the early diphone-based speech synthesizers to the state-of-the art unit-selection-based synthesizers, to the promising statistical parametric techniques, we emphasize the engineering trade-offs that arise when designing such systems.

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