A Short Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Here are some links of interest about speech synthesis.

Text to speech interactive demo in us and uk english, spanish, german and french http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html

The Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project,
a Division of Information Technology and Society of The NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY
http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_btl1.htm

A brief introduction to voice synthesis (in german)
http://www.msc175.de/projekte/vocoder/sprachsynthese.htm

Understand Audio Synthesis via Vacuum Tubes
http://www.cgs.synth.net/tube/index.html

Key figures:

Werner Meyer Eppler, 1913-1960,


http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/introtts_old.html

mathematician , physicist, and director of Phonetics at Bonn University
http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/Studio/Meyer-Eppler/Meyer-Eppler.html
http://www.music.columbia.edu/masterpieces/notes/stockhausen/GesangHistoryandAnalysis.pdf

Homer Dudley,



researcher at bell laboratories, inventor of the vocoder in 1939
http://www.bell-labs.com/org/1133/Heritage/Vocoder/
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/vocoder/