I-IV -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- A five year research program "Analysis and Synthesis of Speech" -- Part I Input characteristics -- Text features affecting listening performance in one way speech communication -- TextScan: A preprocessing module for automatic text-to-speech conversion -- Part II Linguistic aspects -- Multiple paths to the lexicon -- MORPA: A morpheme lexicon based morphological parser -- MORPHON: Lexicon-based text-to-phoneme conversion and phonological rules -- Pattern-driven morphological decomposition -- Prosodic sentence analysis without exhaustive parsing -- Prosodic analysis: The next generation -- Part III Building blocks for speech synthesis -- Speech synthesis with accented and unaccented diphones -- Development of rule based analysis for text-to-speech -- Part IV Acoustic-phonetic data and synthesis rules -- How does speaking rate influence vowel formant track parameters? -- From data to rules: A background survey -- Collecting data for a speech database -- Part V Prosody -- Accentuation, information value and word duration: Effects on speech production, naturalness and sentence processing -- Human and synthetic intonation: A case study -- Sandhi processes in natural and synthetic speech -- Part VI Signal analysis -- Speech quality and speaker characteristics -- Robust ARMA analysis for speech research -- Part VII Implementations and evaluation -- A stand-alone text-to-speech system -- Speech Maker: A flexible framework for constructing text-to-speech systems -- Evaluation of text-to-speech conversion for Dutch -- Appendix 1: Institutes and individuals participating in ASSP -- Appendix 2: Publications by SPIN-funded researchers -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index