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Java for Data Science

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese
Book Image

Java for Data Science

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese

Overview of this book

para 1: Get the lowdown on Java and explore big data analytics with Java for Data Science. Packed with examples and data science principles, this book uncovers the techniques & Java tools supporting data science and machine learning. Para 2: The stability and power of Java combines with key data science concepts for effective exploration of data. By working with Java APIs and techniques, this data science book allows you to build applications and use analysis techniques centred on machine learning. Para 3: Java for Data Science gives you the understanding you need to examine the techniques and Java tools supporting big data analytics. These Java-based approaches allow you to tackle data mining and statistical analysis in detail. Deep learning and Java data mining are also featured, so you can explore and analyse data effectively, and build intelligent applications using machine learning. para 4: What?s Inside ? Understand data science principles with Java support ? Discover machine learning and deep learning essentials ? Explore data science problems with Java-based solutions
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Java for Data Science
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Text-to-speech


Speech synthesis generates human speech. TTS converts text to speech and is useful for a number of different applications. It is used in many places, including phone help desk systems and ordering systems. The TTS process typically consists of two parts. The first part tokenizes and otherwise processes the text into speech units. The second part converts these units into speech.

The two primary approaches for TTS uses concatenation synthesis and formant synthesis. Concatenation synthesis frequently combines prerecorded human speech to create the desired output. Formant synthesis does not use human speech but generates speech by creating electronic waveforms.

We will be using FreeTTS (http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php) to demonstrate TTS. The latest version can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetts/files/. This approach uses concatenation to generate speech.

There are several important terms used in TTS/FreeTTS:

  • Utterance - This concept corresponds...