Education

Teaching material (Slides and tutorial software)

• Speech synthesis I, an introductory course on speech synthesis (in German), by Gregor Möhler, Bernd Möbius, University of Stuttgart.
• Speech synthesis II, (in German), by Bernd Möbius, Gregor Möhler, University of Stuttgart.
• An introductory course on speech processing (in French and English) by Thierry Dutoit, , Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium.
• Speech Science and Technology (in Portuguese), by Plínio A. Barbosa.
• Speech Synthesis on Wikipedia
• Demonstration of the TTS-System, Selection of the Speech Units, University of Dresden.
• Human Speech Production Based on a Linear Predictive Vocoder, University of Cottbus.
• TTSBOX, A Matlab tutorial toolbox on corpus-based Text-to-Speech synthesis, by Thierry Dutoit, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium.
• LPClearn, Real-time interface to an LPC analysis/synthesis system - L.-M. Croisez, T. Dutoit, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium (also available build as open source

Samples

• Access to some speech samples

Educational Softwares

• See our list of educational softwares

Historical images

Take a look at our gallery of historical images.

External Links

• See our external references page
• Dennis Klatt's History of Speech Synthesis,
• Examples of Synthesized Speech,
• "The Talking Computer": Text to Speech Synthesis (J.P. Olive in Hal's Legacy, MITPress),
• German-TTS and emotional synthesis ([1] and [2]) demo by Felix Burkhardt.