| List of Contributors |
| Preface |
| Issues In Signal Generation / Part I： |
| Towards Greater Naturalness: Future Directions of Research in Speech Synthesis / Keller, E. |
| Towards More Versatile Signal Generation Systems / Bailly, G |
| A Parametric Harmonic + Noise Model / Bailly, G. |
| The COST 258 Signal Generation Test Array |
| Concatenative Text-to-Speech Synthesis Based on Sinusoidal Modelling / Banga, E.R. et al |
| Shape Invariant Pitch and Time-Scale Modification of Speech Based on a Harmonic Model / O'Brien, D. ; Monaghan, A. |
| Concatenative Speech Synthesis Using SRELP / Rank, E. |
| Issues In Prosody / Part II： |
| Prosody in Synthetic Speech: Problems, Solutions and Challenges |
| State-of-the-Art Summary of European Synthetic Prosody R&D / Monaghan,A. |
| Modelling F0 Contour in Various Romance Languages: Implementation in Some TTS Systems / Martin, P. |
| Acoustic Characterisation of the Tonic Syllable in Portuguese / Teixeira, J.P. ; Freitas, D. |
| Prosodic Parameter of Synthetic Czech: Developing Rules for Duration and Intensity / Dohalska, M. et al |
| MFGI, a Linguistically Motivated Quantitative Model of German Prosody / Mixdorff, H. |
| Improvements in Modelling the FO Contour for Different Types of Intonation Units in Slovene / Dobnikar, A. |
| Representing Speech Rhythm / Keller, B.Z. |
| Phonetic and Timing Considerations in a Swiss High German TTS System / Siebenhaar, B. et al |
| Corpus-based Development of Prosodic Models Across Six Languages / Fackrell, J. et al |
| Vowel Reduction in German Read Speech / Widera, C. |
| Issues In Styles Of Speech / Part III： |
| Variability and Speaking Styles in Speech Synthesis / Terken, J. |
| An Auditory Analysis of the Prosody of Fast and Slow Speech Styles in English, Dutch and German |
| Automatic Prosody Modelling of Galician and its Application to Spanish / Gonzalo, E.L. et al |
| Reduction and Assimilatory Processes in Conversational French Speech: Implications for Speech Synthesis / Duez, D. |
| Acoustic Patterns of Emotions / Pollermann, B.Z. ; Archinard, M |
| The Role of Pitch and Tempo in Spanish Emotional Speech: Towards Concatenative Synthesis / Montero, J.M. et al |
| Voice Quality and the Synthesis of Affect / Chasaide, A.N. ; Gobl, C. |
| Prosodic Parameters of a 'Fun' Speaking Style / Gustafson, K. ; House, D. |
| Dynamics of the Glottal Source Signal: Implications for Naturalness in Speech Synthesis |
| A Nonlinear Rhythmic Components in Various Styles of Speech / Keller, B.Z. ad Keller, Ec. |
| Issues In Segmentation And Mark-Up / Part IV： |
| Issues in Segmentation and Mark-UP / Huckvale, M. |
| The Use and Potential of Extensible Mark-UP (XML in Speech Generation |
| Mark-Up for Speech Synthesis: A Review and Some Suggestions |
| Automatic Analysis of Prosody for Multi-lingual Speech Corpora / Hirst,D. |
| Automatic Speech Segmentation Based on Alignment with a Text-to-Speech System / Horak, P. |
| Using the COST 249 Reference Speech Recogniser for Automatic Speech Segmentation / Warakagoda, N.D. ; Natvig, J.E. |
| Future Challenges / Part V： |
| Towards Naturalness, or the Challenge of Subjectivenss / Caerlen-Haumont, G. |
| Synthesis within Multi-Modal Systems / Breen, A. |
| A Multi-Modal Speech Synthesis Tool Applied to Audio-Visual Prosody / Beskow, J et al |
| Interface Design for Speech Synthesis Systems / Flach, G. |
| Index |
| List of Contributors |
| Preface |
| Issues In Signal Generation / Part I： |
| Towards Greater Naturalness: Future Directions of Research in Speech Synthesis / Keller, E. |
| Towards More Versatile Signal Generation Systems / Bailly, G |
| A Parametric Harmonic + Noise Model / Bailly, G. |
