The Historical Review and Current Trends in Speech Synthesis by Bibliometric Approach

摘要

To build awareness of the development of Speech Synthesis, this study clarifies the citation and bibliometric analysis of research publications of Speech Synthesis during 1992-2017. This study analysed (7,161 citations from a total of 1256 articles dealing with Speech Synthesis published in 333 journals based on the databases of SCIE, SSCI and AH&CI, retrieved via the Web of Science (WOS). Bradford Law and Lotka's Law, respectively, examined the distribution of journal articles and author productivity. Furthermore, This study determines the citation impact of Speech Synthesis using parameters such as extent of citation received in terms of number of citations per study, distribution of citations over time, distribution of citations among domains, citation of authors, citation of institutions, highly cited papers and citing journals and impact factor of 17,161 citations. This study can help researchers to better understand the history, current status and trends of Speech Synthesis in the advanced study of it.