GENERATING PITCH ACCENTS IN A CONCEPT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM USING A KNOWLEDGE BASE

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Williams, Sandra ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE-REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; PITCH ACCENTING; PITCH ACCENTS; PROSODICS; ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS; SPEECH SYSTEMS;

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 0001111850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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