A concise introduction to acoustics: sounds, resonance, and the source-filter theory
Wayland – Phonetics: A Practical Introduction
This phonetics textbook covers articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as an introduction to digital signal processing.
Peterson & Barney – Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels
Examines the production and perception of vowels. This is a classic paper that many other studies on have built on.
Vaux & Samuels – Explaining vowel systems: dispersion theory vs natural selection
Cross-linguistic distribution of vowel systems
Carr – English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction – Ch 5 – The Phonemic Principle
Takes you from phonetics (which is about sound) to phonology (which is about mental representation and organisation into categories).
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 8 – Acoustic phonetics
Links the source-filter model to spectrograms and acoustic analysis of speech.
Introduction to the IPA from the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
Describes the aims of the International Phonetic Alphabet and its various uses.
Practical Phonetics
Videos for the course Practical Phonetics
Normal Speech Articulation
X-ray movies of speech
Seeing Speech
Interactive IPA chart
Watts et al. Where do the improvements come from in sequence-to-sequence neural TTS?
A systematic investigation of the benefits of moving from frame-by-frame models to sequence-to-sequence models.
Shen et al: Natural TTS Synthesis By Conditioning Wavenet On Mel Spectrogram Predictions
Tacotron 2 was one of the most successful sequence-to-sequence models for text-to-speech of its time and inspired many subsequent models.
This is the new version. Still under construction.