{"id":63,"date":"2020-08-04T08:38:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2020-08-29T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T10:46:16","slug":"what-is-synthetic-speech","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"What is Synthetic Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Synthetic speech is a field of study referred to both as speech synthesis and as text-to-speech (TTS). It consists of generating speech synthetically, for example turning and as text-to-speech (Taylor, 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently  the main areas of focus of research in this field of study are to synthesize text into speech that is simultaneously intelligible, natural-sounding and also expressive (Dutoit &amp; Stylianou, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dutoit, T., &amp; Stylianou, Y. (2018). Text-to-Speech Synthesis. In R. Mitkov (Ed.), <em>The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics 2nd edition<\/em> (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780199573691.001.0001\"> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor, P. (2009). <em>Text-to-Speech Synthesis<\/em>. Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-a-grunnegs-speaking-robot\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zeWN1lhY6I\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/?page_id=182\">Training a model<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Training a model&#8221; &#8212; A Grunnegs-speaking Robot\" src=\"http:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/?page_id=182&#038;embed=true#?secret=zeWN1lhY6I\" data-secret=\"zeWN1lhY6I\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic speech is a field of study referred to both as speech synthesis and as text-to-speech (TTS). It consists of generating speech synthetically, for example turning and as text-to-speech (Taylor, 2009). Currently the main areas of focus of research in this field of study are to synthesize text into speech that is simultaneously intelligible, natural-sounding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/?page_id=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Synthetic Speech?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groningserobot.webhosting.rug.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}