speech synthesis articles
How was the operation of the Voder, developed by Homer Dudley, primarily controlled when unveiled at the 1939 New York World's Fair?
What acoustic principle underpinned the rule-based Formant Synthesis developed after the move to solid-state electronics in the 1960s?
What inherent limitation often introduced audible artifacts into speech generated by Concatenative Synthesis methods?
What process did the Vocoder, developed by Homer Dudley’s team after the Voder, perform on human speech input?
Which specific deep learning architecture, developed by DeepMind, famously generated high-fidelity speech by predicting one audio sample at a time?
In Concatenative Synthesis, what factor was directly dependent on the quality of the final voice output achieved by stitching segments?
What statistical modeling tool formed the foundation of the Statistical Parametric Approach emerging in the late 1980s and 1990s?
What crucial capability did the rudimentary acoustic devices like 'talking tubes' in the 18th and 19th centuries fundamentally lack compared to later synthesized speech?
Based on the historical progression described, where did the burden of expertise shift when moving from operating the Voder to deploying modern Neural TTS systems?
Which academic project originating at the University of Edinburgh was instrumental in developing toolkits like Flite and voice models such as 'C59' for concatenative synthesis research?
What specific capability defined the achievement of Bell Labs' 'Audrey' system in the early 1950s?
What distinction does IBM's Shoebox machine, developed around 1962, hold in the early timeline?
What technological architecture crystallized in the 1980s underpinning modern ASR systems?
What technological barrier, involving speech flow, had to be overcome before speech became a truly useful data source for large-scale analysis?
Approximately when did the specific application known as speech analytics emerge in commercial contact centers?
What was the first practical application of speech analytics deployed in contact centers?
What crucial limitation did early keyword spotting systems (c. 2001–2002) possess regarding conversational context?
What integration truly defined the major evolution of speech analytics beyond simple transcription tagging?
According to research development, what is required to differentiate paralinguistic features from linguistic features in speech analysis?
What early academic gathering in 1961 directed subsequent research efforts in speech recognition?
What acoustic correlates do researchers primarily rely on for classifying vocalizations in SER?
What recent development enhances SER performance via foundational understanding of speech structure?
What process is central to emotion-aware speech generation (TTS) involving expressive characteristics?
What is the key data point required for emotion-aware Text-to-Speech (TTS) system training?
What demands are placed on emotion-aware speech systems used in interactive Virtual Reality (VR) environments?
Which emotional states in SER rely on much finer variations in timing and spectral tilt compared to anger?
How do discrete emotion-aware systems differ from sentiment-aware ones regarding classification targets?
What realization suggests that mastery of fundamental speech structure is a prerequisite invention for high-performing SER?
Which measures of vocal stability are consistently linked to distress across multiple studies informing SER and Synthesis?