Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis covers the
specific aspects of prosody, mainly focusing on how to predict the
prosodic information from linguistic text, and then how to exploit the
predicted prosodic knowledge for various speech applications. Author K.
Sreenivasa Rao discusses proposed methods along with state-of-the-art
techniques for the acquisition and incorporation of prosodic knowledge
for developing speech systems.
Positional, contextual and phonological features are proposed for
representing the linguistic and production constraints of the sound
units present in the text. This book is intended for graduate students
and researchers working in the area of speech processing.