THE BELL LABS GERMAN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM: AN OVERVIEW

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2443-2446

  Möbius, Bernd ^a   Sproat, Richard ^a   van Santen, Jan P H ^a   Olive, Joseph P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELLS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES; BELL LABS; DURATION MODELLING; HIGH QUALITY; INTONATION MODELING; PROSODICS; TEXT ANALYSIS; TEXT NORMALISATION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0004656726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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