Reversible letter-to-sound/sound-to-letter generation based on parsing word morpology

Speech Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-63

  Meng, Helen ^a   Hunnicutt, Sheri ^b   Seneff, Stephanie ^a   Zue, Victor ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Morphology; Phonological parsing; Reversible letter sound generation

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BIDIRECTIONAL LETTER/SOUND GENERATION SYSTEM; PROBABILISTIC PARSING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0029769143     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(95)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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