Taylor, Paul. <br/><br/>
Text-to-speech synthesis / 
Paul Taylor. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  c2009. 
 - xxviii, 597 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction. - Communication and language. - The text-to-speech problem. - Text segmentation and organisation. - Text decoding. - Prosody prediction from text. - Phonetics and phonology. - Pronunciation. - Synthesis of prosody. - Signals and filters. - Acoustic models of speech production. - Analysis of speech signals. - Synthesis techniques based on vocal-tract models. - Synthesis by concatenation and signal-processing modification. - Hidden-Markov-model synthesis. - Unit-selection synthesis. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521899277 (hbk.) 0521899273 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speech synthesis.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>006.54  / TAY