Reading materials

2.19. Speech synthesis

• Prof. Simon King’s tutorial at Interspeech 2017, includes videos (recommended)
• Paul Taylor’s book “Text-to-Speech Synthesis”. Comprehensive reference for HMM-based parametric TTS (but has no neural nets)
  
• Simon King’s (less comprehensive) introduction to HMM-based parametric synthesis

• Open source DNN-based parametric speech synthesis
• Current state-of-the-art: Tacotron and WaveNet (GPU required)
• https://github.com/keithito/tacotron
  
• https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder