CHAPTER 10 Speech Synthesis Systems in Ambient Intelligence Environments

Murtaza Bulut

Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

10.1 Introduction 256
10.2 Speech Synthesis Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence 258
10.3 Speech Synthesis 261
- 10.3.1 Text Processing 261
- 10.3.2 Speech Signal Synthesis 263
- 10.3.3 Prosody Generation 269
- 10.3.4 Evaluation of Synthetic Speech 270
10.4 Emotional Speech Synthesis 270
10.5 Discussion 272
- 10.5.1 Ambient Intelligence and Users 273
- 10.5.2 Future Directions and Challenges 273
10.6 Conclusions 274
Acknowledgments 274
References 275

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