20 Jul
2006
20 Jul
'06
5:52 p.m.
> McIlroy, M D, "Synthetic English Speech by
Rule",
> Bell Telephone Labs, CSTR #14, 1973 (though I have
> also seen it referenced as 1974!)
>
> Ainsworth, W A, "A System for Converting English Text
> to Speech", IEEE Trans Audio & Electroacoustics AU-21 #3
> pp 288-290, 1973
Sorry, turned out to be neither, although the two books I remembered
having are very similar in content. I have:
From text to speech: The MITalk system (allen,
hunnicutt & klatt)
Electronic synthesis of speech (linggard)
These two are fairly good:
English word stress (fudge)
Generative phonology (kenstowicz & kisseberth)
Fudge is definitely recommended reading.
Linggard is at the vocoder/electronic circuit level. Unless you're
doing your own chip, it's probably not relevant.
I also have a whole pile of chomsky-type grammar books and computational
morphology books that any linguist would be happy to have as their
entire library :-) (I'm not a linguist, just a programmer who once
worked on spelling correction and got off on a tangent for a time)
Graham