Speech Synthesis (U03222)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : PPL-3-SS-LI

This course extends the introduction to speech synthesis
taught in Speech Processing by taking a detailed look at the theory and practice of
the state of the art speech synthesis systems. Through the lectures
students will learn the theory of speech synthesis and through the lab
sessions and assessment students will learn about the practical
application of the theory as they design and build their own synthetic
voice for a unit selection speech synthesiser.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Speech Processing U03221 or equivalent

? Costs : None

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Language Sciences, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
09/01/2007	12:10	13:00	Room 1.01, 14 Buccleuch Place	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	12:10	13:00	Central

1 of the following 2 classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Laboratory	Tu	14:00	14:50	Central
Laboratory	Fr	12:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

A student who has attended this course should

Understand the speech synthesis process, and be familiar with the
processing steps required to convert text to speech.

Be familiar with the different speech synthesis methods
currently used by speech synthesis systems and understand the
advantages and disadvantages of each.

Have a detailed understanding of the principles of unit selection
speech synthesis, and the issues involved with choosing suitable
candidate units to match a given target sequence.

Understand the design issues associated with recording data
suitable for building a unit selection voice.

Have the practical experience of having built a synthetic voice themselves.

Be familiar with the different speech coding techniques that can be
used for speech synthesis, and understand how these can be used to aid
the joining of individual speech segments and how using different signal
processing techniques to manipulate speech synthesis output affects
the speech quality.

Be in a position to discuss current issues in speech synthesis and see
where speech synthesis research is heading in the future.