Sprachsynthese -- State-of-the-Art in englischer und deutscher Sprache
This is an incremental review article that synthesizes existing knowledge for researchers and practitioners in speech synthesis.
The paper presents the state of-the-art in speech synthesis for English and German, covering mel-spectrogram generation and vocoders, and discusses the transferability of results between these languages.
Reading text aloud is an important feature for modern computer applications. It not only facilitates access to information for visually impaired people, but is also a pleasant convenience for non-impaired users. In this article, the state of the art of speech synthesis is presented separately for mel-spectrogram generation and vocoders. It concludes with an overview of available data sets for English and German with a discussion of the transferability of the good speech synthesis results from English to German language.