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wkap.com>MULTILINGUAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS The Bell Labs Approach edited by Richard Sproat Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Foreword by Louis Pols, University of Amsterdam MULTILINGUAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS: The Bell Labs Approach is the first monograph-length description of the Bell Labs work on multilingual text-to-speech synthesis. Every important aspect of the system is described, including text analysis, segmental timing, intonation and synthesis. There is also a discussion of evaluation methodologies, as well as a chapter outlining some future areas of research. While the book focuses on the Bell Labs approach to the various problems of converting from text into speech, other approaches are discussed and compared. This book serves both the function of providing a single reference to an important strand of research in multilingual synthesis, while at the same time providing a source of information on current trends in the field. Contents and Contributors: Foreword, Louis Pols. 1. Introduction, Jan van Santen, Richard Sproat; 2. Methods and Tools, Jan van Santen, Richard Sproat; 3. Multilingual Text Analysis, Richard Sproat, Bernd M\246bius, Kazuaki Maeda, Evelyne Tzoukermann; 4. Further Issues in Text Analysis, Richard Sproat; 5. Timing, Jan van Santen; 6. Intonation, Jan van Santen, Chilin Shih, Bernd M\246bius; 7. Synthesis, Joseph Olive, Jan van Santen, Bernd M\246bius, Chilin Shih; 8. Evaluation, Jan van Santen; 9. Further Issues, Richard Sproat, Jan van Santen, Joseph Olive; A. Character Set Encodings. B. Glossary of Grammatical Labels, References, Name Index, Subject Index. 1998 336 pp. ISBN 0-7923-8027-4 Price: $110.00 Order your copy today! Phone customer service at (781) 871-6600. Orders by FAX to (781)871-6528 For information about all our publications, please visit our on-line catalogue at: http://www.wkap.nlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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