SCOOT: Parametric (HMM-based) Synthesis

Synthesis based on statistical models (somewhat) similar to those developed for speech recognition.

See 

• ·        Simon King: ‘A beginners’ guide to statistical parametric speech synthesis’
• ·        Simon King’s Inaugural Lecture ‘Using Speech Synthesis to give Everyone their own Voice - Inaugural Lecture’,
• ·        the May 22 lecture by Andrew Maas, starting at slide 73.
• ·        Zhen-Lua Ling’s talk at Microsoft, 2016