caa a22 4500 388111437 CHVBK 20180307125354.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0025100300006411 doi S0025100300006411 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0025100300006411 Henton Caroline fonix corporation, 180 West Election Road, Draper, UT 84020 e-mail: chenton@fonix.com Where is Female Synthetic Speech? [Elektronische Daten] [Caroline Henton] There is widespread, immediate and enduring demand for high quality, natural, intelligible synthetic female voices in the expanding speech technology industry. Yet synthetic female voices are scarce, both in parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems and in concatenative ones. Current female synthetic speech largely lacks naturalness, pleasantness and tolerability. Some acoustic specifications of female voices that are relevant to synthesis are discussed in detail. Recent research pertaining to female voice quality is reported and a ranking of these various considerations is proposed. This paper reviews the present situation and considers why there is a paucity of female voice synthesis. Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1999 Journal of the International Phonetic Association Cambridge University Press 29/1(1999-06), 51-61 0025-1003 29:1<51 1999 29 IPA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100300006411 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100300006411 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Henton Caroline fonix corporation, 180 West Election Road, Draper, UT 84020 e-mail: chenton@fonix.com NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the International Phonetic Association Cambridge University Press 29/1(1999-06), 51-61 0025-1003 29:1<51 1999 29 IPA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge