milestones in text-to-speech conversion (Klatt 1987) | c20 - c21 - c22 - c23 - | |
Part C: Sentence prosody | ||
The next synthesis-by-rule programs include a complete set of rules for going from phonemes, stress marks, and some syntactic information to an output speech waveform. | listen to demonstration technical details text/transcript | |
c20 First prosodic synthesis by rule, Ignatius Mattingly, 1968. | ||
c21 Sentence-level phonology incorporated in rules by Dennis Klatt, 1976. | ||
c22 Concatenation of linear-prediction diphones, by Joe Olive, 1977. | ||
c23 Concatenation of linear-prediction demisyllables, by Cathrine Browman, 1980. | ||