Developments in speech synthesis.047085538XDevelopments in speech synthesis. Tatham, Mark and Katherine Morton. John Wiley & Sons 2005 342 pages $110.00 Hardcover TK7882 Aimed at researchers, practicing engineers, and advanced students, this volume provides an overview of recent developments in speech synthesis. The focus is on the potential for improvements to computer- produced speech that enable it to sound more natural and expressive. Sample topics include the advantages and disadvantages of the statistical approach to automatic speech recognition; the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). design criteria for Speech Synthesis Markup Language Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is an XML-based markup language for speech synthesis applications. It is a recommendation of the W3C's voice browser working group. SSML is often embedded in VoiceXML scripts to drive interactive telephony systems. (SSML SSML Speech Synthesis Markup Language ); and phonological pho·nol·o·gy n. pl. pho·nol·o·gies 1. The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation. 2. and phonetic models of intonation. The authors are affiliated with the U. of Essex, UK. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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