This book presents a statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) framework for developing a
speech synthesis system where the desired speech is generated from the parameters of vocal
tract and excitation source. Throughout the book the authors discuss novel source modeling
techniques to enhance the naturalness and overall intelligibility of the SPSS system. This book
provides several important methods and models for generating the excitation source parameters
for enhancing the overall quality of synthesized speech. The contents of the book are useful
for both researchers and system developers. For researchers the book is useful for knowing the
current state-of-the-art excitation source models for SPSS and further refining the source
models to incorporate the realistic semantics present in the text. For system developers the
book is useful to integrate the sophisticated excitation source models mentioned to the latest
models of mobile smart phones.
