Text-to-speech synthesis

Bernd Möbius

Summer 2012 (LSF 60716)
Tue 16:15-17:45, C7.2/5.09

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 2011/2012).

4 CP (seminar project only, LSF 11691); 7 CP (seminar project and paper, LSF 11692)

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

Structure

Date Topic Materials
24.04. Introduction, Course organization Clark/etal:2007 pdf
08.05. Projects and groups; domain specification
12.06. Text materials for recordings
19.06. Domain-specific lexicon
26.06. Recordings
10.07. Speech corpus annotation
17.07. Integration in Festival
24.07. Project presentations
Documentation; term paper

Projects

Information, manuals, resources:

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