This paper focuses on generation of expressive speech, specifically speech displaying vocal affect. Generating speech with vocal affect is important for diagnosis, research, and remediation for children with autism and developmental language disorders. However, because vocal affect involves many acoustic factors working together in complex ways, it is unlikely that we will be able to generate c...

Like many current TTS systems the AT&T German text -tospeech system is based on the methods of unit selection and concatenative synthesis [1]. This paper highlights efforts to improve TTS quality by closely matching the speakers' original productions with linguistic descriptions. On the segmental level this is achieved by adjusting the speakers' individual productions to an established, general...

The development of the Greek Text-To-Speech (TTS) system by NTUA is based on the method of concatenative synthesis and follows the Bell Labs approach to this technique. Concatenative synthesis is one of the simplest methods for speech synthesis and at the same time bypasses most of the problems encountered by articulatory and formant synthesis techniques. The method relies on designing and crea...

the regulation of dopamine and serotonin synthesis in rat brain striatal synaptosomes has been studied using hplc methods. noradrenaline was shown to markedly inhibit both the synthesis of dopamine and serotonin. the response of the synaptosomes to the concentrations of noradrenaline appeared to be biphasic, a very effective inhibition occurring at low concentrations (1-5 µm) and a relatively i...

We are presenting an interactive course on speech synthesis which is designed to support the education in speech communication. In the basic section, the fundamental principles of speech synthesis are explained. To explore a complete text-to-speech (TTS) system, the user is provided with access to the Dresden Speech Synthesizer DreSS. The user may type any text, and he may observe how the syste...