Chapter 5 Contents

• 5 Spoken Output Technologies
  • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.1.1 A Global View of Synthesis Research
    • 5.1.2 Synthesis Segment Units
    • 5.1.3 Prosody Control
    • 5.1.4 Speaker Characteristics Control
    • 5.1.5 Future Directions
  • 5.2 Synthetic Speech Generation
    • 5.2.1 Input to the Speech Generation Component
    • 5.2.2 Prosody Generation
    • 5.2.3 Generation
    • 5.2.4 Trends in Speech Generation
    • 5.2.5 Future Directions
  • 5.3 Text Interpretation for TtS Synthesis
    • 5.3.1 Tokenization LI> 5.3.2 Word Pronunciation 5.3. Accentuation
    • 5.3. Prosodic Phrasing
    • 5.3. Future Directions
  • 5.4.1 State of the Art
    • Interactive Systems
    • Controlling Intonation to Signal Meaning in Speech Generation
  • 5.4.2 Future Directions
    • Interaction Between Generation and Synthesis
    • Generating Language Appropriate to Spoken Situations
    • Influence of Discourse History
    • Coordination with Other Media
    • Evaluating Spoken Language Generation
• 5.5 References