Speech synthesis examples
- AT&T Natural Voices synthesis demo (Diverses)
- Felix Burkhardt's collection of speech synthesis examples (Diverses)
- Festival speech synthesis, Demos (Diverses)
- HTS HMM-based synthesis, Demos (Diverses)
- IMS German Festival synthesis system, demo (Diverses)
- Mary speech synthesis system, Demo (Diverses)
- Nuance Vocalizer Demo (Diverses)
- Speech synthesis tutorial at TU Dresden, including Demo (Ressource (Sonstiges))
Speech synthesis tools and resources
Software, Tools
- Edinburgh Speech Tools (Library of signal processing and synthesis tools)
- HTS HMM-based synthesis
- IMS German Festival - German extension to the Festival speech synthesis system
- Mary speech synthesis system
Synthetic voices
History of speech synthesis
The earliest serious attempts at generating speech artificially date back to the 18th century, when Wolfgang van Kempelen built a mechanical speech synthesizer. Here's a great collection of links on the history of synthesis from the 18th century to the first commercial formant synthesizers in the eighties.
- A master thesis on speech synthesis, see chapter 2 for history of speech synthesis
- History of speech synthesis: historical photographs and illustrations
- Klatt's History of speech synthesis
- Video: A review of speech synthesis applications in 1984
- Zur Geschichte der Sprachsynthese
Articulatory speech synthesis
The idea in articulatory speech synthesis is to generate speech by modelling articulator movements (e.g. in the form of vocal tract configurations) and then computing from these the acoustic output. A challenge in articulatory speech synthesis is collecting training data.
Betreut von: Dr. Antje Schweitzer, Stuttgart