Title :
A perspective on the next challenges for TTS research
Author :
Schroeter, Juergen ; Conkie, Alistair ; Syrdal, Ann ; Beutnagel, Mark ; Jilka, Matthias ; Strom, Volker ; Kim, Yeon Jun ; Kang, Hong-Goo ; Kapilow, David
Abstract :
The quality of speech synthesis has come a long way since Homer Dudley\´s "Voder" in 1939. In fact, with the widespread use of unit-selection synthesizers, the naturalness of the synthesized speech is now high enough to pass the Turing test for short utterances, such as voice prompts. Therefore, it seems valid to ask the question "what are the next challenges for TTS research"? This paper tries to identify unsolved issues, the solution of which would greatly enhance the state of the art in TTS.
Keywords :
speech processing; speech synthesis; TTS research; Turing test; short utterances; speech synthesis quality; synthesized speech naturalness; unit-selection synthesizers; voice prompts; Books; Databases; Natural languages; Navigation; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Telecommunication services; Testing; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Speech Synthesis, 2002. Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7395-2
DOI :
10.1109/WSS.2002.1224411
