1. High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis
2. Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status
3. Text-To-Speech
4. Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?
5. Low-Level Synthesis Potential
6. A View of Naturalness
7. Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels
8. Variability and System Integrity
9. Automatic Speech Recognition
10. The Need for High-Level Control
11. The Input to High-Level Control
12. Problems for Automatic Text Markup
13. Filling Gaps
14. Using Different Units
15. Waveform Concatenation Systems: Naturalness and Large Dat.abases
16. Unit Selection Systems
17. VoiceXML
18. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
19. SABLE
20. The Need for Prosodic Markup
21. Speech
22. Basic Concepts
23. Underlying Basic Disciplines: Expression Studies
24. Labelling Expressive/Emotive Content
25. The Proposed Model
26. Types of Model
27. The Underlying Linguistics System
28. Planes for Synthesis
29. The Phonological Prosodic Framework
30. Sample Code
31. XML Coding
32. Prosody: General
33. Phonological and Phonetic Models of Intonation
34. The General Approach
35. The Expression Wrapper in XML
36. Advantages of XML in Wrapping
37. Considerations in Characterising Expression/Emotion
38. Summary
Part X Concluding Overview
