History

A brief history of text-to-speech synthesis, to provide some context for the state-of-the art systems that this course will cover.

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Audio examples

1.4.1 von Kempelen’s speaking machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg9_6yxVisQ 1.4.2 Dudley’s “Voder” 1.4.3 the UK speaking clock – unit selection from physical recordings

1.5.1 Dennis Klatt's history of synthesis (1987)

1.5.2 Diphone synthesis

1.5.3 – Neural network synthesis (circa 2014, so now out of date)

Other material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXB9v3z22MI

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