Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- A five year research program "Analysis and Synthesis of Speech" / Cohen, Antonie / Nooteboom, Sieb G. -- Part I Input characteristics -- Text features affecting listening performance in one way speech communication / Petric, Irena / Bergh, Huub van den -- TextScan: A preprocessing module for automatic text-to-speech conversion / Holsteijn, Yvonne van -- Part II Linguistic aspects -- Multiple paths to the lexicon / Lammens, Johan M. -- MORPA: A morpheme lexicon based morphological parser / Heemskerk, Josée S. / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- MORPHON: Lexicon-based text-to-phoneme conversion and phonological rules / Nunn, Anneke M. / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- Pattern-driven morphological decomposition / Reizevoort, Jeroen / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- Prosodic sentence analysis without exhaustive parsing / Quené, Hugo / Kager, René -- Prosodic analysis: The next generation / Dirksen, Arthur / Quené, Hugo -- Part III Building blocks for speech synthesis -- Speech synthesis with accented and unaccented diphones / Drullman, Rob / Collier, René C. -- Development of rule based analysis for text-to-speech / Loman, Henk / Boves, Louis -- Part IV Acoustic-phonetic data and synthesis rules -- How does speaking rate influence vowel formant track parameters? / Son, Rob J. J. H. van / Pols, Louis C. W. -- From data to rules: A background survey / Bosch, Louis F. M. ten -- Collecting data for a speech database / Zanten, Ellen van / Damen, Laurens / Houten, Els van -- Part V Prosody -- Accentuation, information value and word duration: Effects on speech production, naturalness and sentence processing / Eefting, Wieke / Nooteboom, Sieb G. -- Human and synthetic intonation: A case study / Terken, Jacques ¿. B. -- Sandhi processes in natural and synthetic speech / Jongenburger, Willy / Heuven, Vincent J. van -- Part VI Signal analysis -- Speech quality and speaker characteristics / Eggen, Berry / Nooteboom, Sieb G. -- Robust ARMA analysis for speech research / Veth, Johan de / Brouwers, Wim van Golstein / Boves, Louis -- Part VII Implementations and evaluation -- A stand-alone text-to-speech system / Deliege, René J. H. -- Speech Maker: A flexible framework for constructing text-to-speech systems / Leeuwen, Hugo C. van / Lindert, Enrico te -- Evaluation of text-to-speech conversion for Dutch / Bezooijen, René van / Pols, Louis C. W. -- Appendix 1: Institutes and individuals participating in ASSP -- Appendix 2: Publications by SPIN-funded researchers -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index