I Signal Processing and Source Modeling -- 1 Section Introduction. Recent Approaches to Modeling the Glottal Source for TTS -- 2 Synthesizing Allophonic Glottalization -- 3 Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Dynamic Control of Source Parameters -- 4 Modification of the Aperiodic Component of Speech Signals for Synthesis -- 5 On the Use of a Sinusoidal Model for Speech Synthesis in Text-to-Speech -- II Linguistic Analysis -- 6 Section Introduction. The Analysis of Text in Text-to-Speech Synthesis -- 7 Language-Independent Data-Oriented Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion -- 8 All-Prosodic Speech Synthesis -- 9 A Model of Timing for Nonsegmental Phonological Structure -- 10 A Complete Linguistic Analysis for an Italian Text-to-Speech System -- 11 Discourse Structural Constraints on Accent in Narrative -- 12 Homograph Disambiguation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis -- III Articulatory Synthesis and Visual Speech -- 13 Section Introduction. Talking Heads in Speech Synthesis -- 14 Section Introduction. Articulatory Synthesis and Visual Speech -- 15 Speech Models and Speech Synthesis -- 16 A Framework for Synthesis of Segments Based on Pseudoarticulatory Parameters -- 17 Biomechanical and Physiologically Based Speech Modeling -- 18 Analysis-Synthesis and Intelligibility of a Talking Face -- 19 3D Models of the Lips and Jaw for Visual Speech Synthesis -- IV Concatenative Synthesis and Automated Segmentation -- 20 Section Introduction. Concatenative Synthesis -- 21 A Mixed Inventory Structure for German Concatenative Synthesis -- 22 Prosody and the Selection of Source Units for Concatenative Synthesis -- 23 Optimal Coupling of Diphones -- 24 Automatic Speech Segmentation for Concatenative Inventory Selection -- 25 The Aligner: Text-to-Speech Alignment Using Markov Models -- V Prosodic Analysis of Natural Speech -- 26 Section Introduction. Prosodic Analysis: A Dual Track? -- 27 Section Introduction. Prosodic Analysis of Natural Speech -- 28 Automatic Extraction of F0 Control Rules Using Statistical Analysis -- 29 Comparing Approaches to Pitch Contour Stylization for Speech Synthesis -- 30 Generation of Pauses Within the z-score Model -- 31 Duration Study for the Bell Laboratories Mandarin Text-to-Speech System -- 32 Synthesizing German Intonation Contours -- 33 Effect of Speaking Style on Parameters of Fundamental Frequency Contour -- VI Synthesis of Prosody -- 34 Section Introduction. Text and Prosody -- 35 Section Introduction. Phonetic Representations for Intonation -- 36 Computational Extraction of Lexico-Grammatical Information for Generation of Swedish Intonation -- 37 Parametric Control of Prosodic Variables by Symbolic Input in TTS Synthesis -- 38 Prosodic and Intonational Domains in Speech Synthesis -- 39 Speaking Styles: Statistical Analysis and Synthesis by a Text-to-Speech System -- VII Evaluation and Perception -- 40 Section Introduction. Evaluation Inside or Assessment Outside? -- 41 A Structured Way of Looking at the Performance of Text-to-Speech Systems -- 42 Evaluation of a TTS-System Intended for the Synthesis of Names -- 43 Perception of Synthetic Speech -- VIII Systems and Applications -- 44 Section Introduction. A Brief History of Applications -- 45 A Modular Architecture for Multilingual Text-to-Speech -- 46 High-Quality Message-to-Speech Generation in a Practical Application.