Online Demos and Bell Labs
There is an online interactive demonstration for NeoSpeech speech synthesis, but it is not possible to customize the Chinese pronunciation by entering pinyin. iFlyTek has two demos available online.
Bell Labs have an online Mandarin text-to-speech demo dated 1997, but it is now non-functional (the server that the query is to be submitted to does not exist in the DNS) and the contact email is no longer valid. However, their approach was described in a monograph "Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis: The Bell Labs Approach" (Springer, October 31, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7923-8027-6), and the former employee who was responsible for the project, Chilin Shih (who now works at the University of Illinois), has some notes about her methods on her website.
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