Text-to-speech synthesis: A complete system for the Slovenian language

Journal of Computing and Information Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-19

  Gros, Jerneja ^a   Pavešić, Nikola ^a   Mihelič, France ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Diphone concatenation; Grapheme to phoneme conversion; Prosody modelling; Slovenian language; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARBITRARY INPUTS; DIPHONE CONCATENATION; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; PROSODY MODELLING; SLOVENIAN LANGUAGE; SPECIAL HARDWARE; SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENT; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0013072727     PISSN: 13301136     EISSN: 18463908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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