Algorithms for Grapheme-Phoneme Translation for English and French: Applications for Database Searches and Speech Synthesis

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 495-523

  Divay, Michel ^a   Vitale, Anthony J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; DATABASE SEARCHES; FORMANT TRAJECTORY; GRAPHEME TO PHONEMES; LETTER-TO-SOUND RULES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; VOCAL TRACT MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0012266740     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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