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This lecture introduces speech synthesis and explains how to generate speech from text. It surveys unit selection, statistical parametric, and neural synthesis approaches, along with voice choice, datasets, testing, and challenges across languages.
Syllabus
Intro
Agenda
History of Unit Selection
Understanding Synthesis
Research Tools
Choosing a Voice
Flight
Common data sets
The blizzard challenge
Testing
Stateoftheart
Other languages
Synthesizers
Unit Selection
Talking Clock
Just a Minute
Backchanneling
Statistical parametric synthesis
Neural farms
Nice sentences
The hard problems
Unseen tests
Questions
Taught by
Graham Neubig