The first paper that re-introduced the use of (Deep) Neural Networks in speech synthesis.
Heiga Zen, Andrew Senior, Mike Schuster “Statistical parametric speech synthesis using deep neural networks” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2013 DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639215
Publisher’s version (preferred)
Publisher’s version (preferred for Edinburgh University students)
Author’s version (use only as a last resort)
Heiga Zen’s slides from a tutorial on the same topic, given at Interspeech later the same year.