1. Obituary: W.A. (‘Bill’) Ainsworth 1939–2002

   • Bob Damper

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 8

2. Editorial: Speech Synthesis Comes of Age

   • R.I. Damper

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 10

3. Close Shadowing Natural Versus Synthetic Speech

   • G. Bailly

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 19

4. The Role of Duration Models and Symbolic Representation for Timing in Synthetic Speech

   • Caren Brinckmann
   • Jürgen Trouvain

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 31

5. Hierarchical Structure and Word Strength Prediction of Mandarin Prosody

   • Greg Kochanski
   • Chilin Shih
   • Hongyan Jing

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 43

6. Evaluating the Quality of an Integrated Model of German Prosody

   • Hansjörg Mixdorff
   • Oliver Jokisch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 55

7. Rare Events and Closed Domains: Two Delicate Concepts in Speech Synthesis

   • Bernd Möbius

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 71

8. A Metrical Model of Prosody for Multilingual TTS

   • A.I.C. Monaghan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 81

9. Prosodic Phrasing: Machine and Human Evaluation

   • M. Céu Viana
   • Luís C. Oliveira
   • Ana I. Mata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 94