Synthesis course notes
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| Date | Topic | Slides | Exercises | Hints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6 |
Course Overview Synthesis History Basic Festival use | lecture1 slides pdf | exercises | hints |
| Mar 8 |
basic TTS processes Utterance representation | lecture2 slides pdf | ||
| Mar 20 |
Text analysis, tokenization homographs | lecture3 slides pdf | exercises | hints |
| Mar 22 |
Text modes, NSW homographs | lecture5 slides pdf | ||
| Mar 27 | Lexicons and LTS | lecture6 slides pdf | exercises | hints |
| Mar 29 | Phrasing, Intonation | lecture8 slides pdf | ||
| Apr 3 | Duration, Speaker style | lecture9 slides pdf | exercises | hints |
| Apr 5 |
Waveforms, Diphones | lecture10 slides pdf | ||
| Apr 10 | Unit Selection | lecture11 slides pdf | exercises | hints |
| Apr 12 | Statistical Parametric Synthesis and Voice Conversion | lecture11a slides pdf | ||
| Apr 17 |
Limited Domain Synthesis | lecture12 slides pdf | exercises | hints |
| Apr 19 | Carnivale | |||
| Apr 24 | New Voices, New Languages | lecture13 slides pdf | ||
| Apr 26 |
Concept-to-speech Evaluation | lecture15 slides pdf | ||
| May 1 |
Embedded Talking heads, singing Unsolved problems | lecture17 slides pdf | ||
| May 3 |
Final overview | lecture19 slides pdf |