A description of the implementation and evaluation of Festival’s unit selection engine, called Multisyn.
Hunt & Black: Unit selection in a concatenative speech synthesis system using a large speech database
The classic description of unit selection, described as a search through a network.
King et al: Speech synthesis using non-uniform units in the Verbmobil project
Of purely historical interest, this is an example of a system using a heterogeneous unit type inventory, developed shortly before Hunt & Black published their influential paper.
Taylor – Chapter 16 – Unit-selection synthesis
A substantial chapter covering target cost, join cost and search.
