FULLY AUTOMATIC PROSODY GENERATOR FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Malfrere F ^a   Dutoit, T ^a   Mertens, P ^b  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; KEYPOINTS; NATURAL SPEECH; PROSODIC DATABASE; PROSODY GENERATORS; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH DATABASE; TEXT TO SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; WRITTEN TEXTS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0011912659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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