Text-to-speech synthesis

Bernd Möbius
Summer 2013 (LSF 69385)
Tue 16:15-17:45, C7.2 / 5.09 and 5.08
M.Sc. Language Science and Technology (specialization course area SS&T)
M.Sc. Inf; M.Sc. CuKT

Standard time slot: 2nd semester

Content

This is a research seminar with hands-on components. Participants will build a limited-domain speech synthesis system using Festival TTS and FestVox tools. Practical work will pertain to all TTS system components: linguistic text analysis, prosodic analysis and generation, and acoustic unit selection and concatenation. Seminar projects may be extended to master thesis projects.

Entrance requirements: Successful participation in lecture on Text-to-Speech Synthesis (e.g., in winter 2012/2013).

4 CP (seminar project only); 7 CP (seminar project and paper)

Contact:
  Prof. Dr. Bernd Möbius
  Email
  C7.2/4.10
  0681/302-4500

Structure

Date	Topic	Materials
23.04.	Introduction, Course organization	Clark/etal:2007 pdf
30.04.	Projects and groups
07.05.	Domain specification
21.05.	Text materials for recordings
04.06.	Recordings
11.06.	Domain-specific lexicon
02.07.	Speech corpus annotation
09.07.	Integration in Festival
23.07.	Project presentations
	Documentation; term paper

bm 24.3.2013