WORD AND SYLLABLE MODELS FOR GERMAN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 59-64

  Möbius, Bernd ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BELL LABS; CENTRAL COMPONENT; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; SUB-STRINGS; TEXT ANALYSIS MODULES; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; WORD MODELING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0012581185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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