Epoch Synchronous Overlap Add (ESOLA) - A Concatenative Synthesis Procedure for Speech

This book presents details of a text-to-speech synthesis procedure using epoch synchronous overlap add (ESOLA), and provides a solution for development of a text-to-speech system using minimum data resources compared to existing solutions. It also examines most natural speech signals including random perturbation in synthesis. The book is intended for students, researchers and industrial practitioners in the field of text-to-speech synthesis.

List of contents

Introduction.- Epoch Synchronous Overlap Add (ESOLA) Algorithm.- State Phase Analysis: PDA/VDA Algorithm and Phoneme Classifier.- Phonological Rules.- Intonation.- Random Perturbations.- Application in singing synthesis.

About the author

Prof. Asoke Kumar Datta, an MSc. (Pure Math), was born in 1935 and worked in Indian Statistical Institute 1955-1994, retired as HOD Electronics and Communication Sciences Department, Visiting Professor of ISI till date; President, BOM-BOM, Kolkata; Senior Guest Researcher, Sir C V Raman Centre for Physics and Music, JU; Executive Member, Society for Natural Language Technology Research, Kolkata; Life Member, Acoustical Society of India; J C Bose Memorial Award, 1969, Sir C V Raman Award, 1982-83 &1998-99, S K Mitra Memorial Award, 1984, Sri C Achyut Menon Prize, 2001. ​

Summary

This book presents details of a text-to-speech synthesis procedure using epoch synchronous overlap add (ESOLA), and provides a solution for development of a text-to-speech system using minimum data resources compared to existing solutions. It also examines most natural speech signals including random perturbation in synthesis. The book is intended for students, researchers and industrial practitioners in the field of text-to-speech synthesis. 

Product details

• Authors: Asoke Kumar Datta
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9789811070150
• ISBN: 978-981-10-7015-0
• No. of pages: 197
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 242 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 432 g
• Illustrations: XII, 197 p. 88 illus., 32 illus. in color.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology; Signals and Communication Tech; Signals and Communication Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, engineering, Applications of Mathematics, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Signal Processing, Information theory, Applied mathematics, Speech processing systems, Digital and Analog Signal Processing, Image processing, User interface design & usability, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, User interfaces (Computer systems), Information and Communication, Circuits