Towards Expressive Arabic Text to Speech
Doaa Gamal, Madany Taya · 2014
x Chapter1: Introduction 1 1.1 Expressive TTS literature review 1 1.1.1 Acoustic correlates of emotions 1 1.1.2 Generating expressive speech 1 1.2 Motivation and contribution of the thesis 4 1.3 Thesis Organization 4 Chapter2: Overview of Text To Speech systems 5 2.1 Text and phonetic Analysis 5 2.1.1 LEXICON 7 2.1.2 DOCUMENT STRUCTURE DETECTION 7 2.1.3 TEXT NORMALIZATION 7 2.1.4 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS 8 2.1.5 HOMOGRAPH DISAMBIGUATION 9 2.1.6 MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS 9 2.1.7 LETTER-TO-SOUND CONVERSION 9 2.2 Prosody Generation 9 2.3 Acoustic Synthesis 10 2.3.1 First generation acoustic synthesizers 10 2.3.2 Second generation acoustic synthesizers (diphone-concatenative synthesizers) 11