text_combined: multilingual text speech synthesis multilingual textto speech synthesis bell labs approach edited richard sproat bell labs lucent technologies foreword louis pols university amsterdam multilingual textto speech synthesis bell labs approach first monographlength description bell labs work multilingual textto speech synthesis every important aspect system described including text analysis segmental timing intonation synthesis also discussion evaluation methodologies well chapter outlining future areas research book focuses bell labs approach various problems converting text speech approaches discussed compared book serves function providing single reference important strand research multilingual synthesis time providing source information current trends field contents contributors foreword louis pols 1 introduction jan van santen richard sproat 2 methods tools jan van santen richard sproat 3 multilingual text analysis richard sproat bernd 246bius kazuaki maeda evelyne tzoukermann 4 issues text analysis richard sproat 5 timing jan van santen 6 intonation jan van santen chilin shih bernd 246bius 7 synthesis joseph olive jan van santen bernd 246bius chilin shih 8 evaluation jan van santen 9 issues richard sproat jan van santen joseph olive character set encodings b glossary grammatical labels references name index subject index 1998 336 pp isbn 07923 8027 4 price 110 00 order copy today phone customer service 781 8716600 orders fax 781 8716528 information publications please visit online catalogue http www wkap nl