Overview of current text-to-speech techniques: Part I - Text and linguistic analysis

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-83

  Edgington, M ^a,b,c,d   Lowry, A ^b,d,e   Jackson, P ^b,d,i,l   Breen, A P ^{d,f,g,h,i,j,k}   Minnis, S ^d,e,m,n,o  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^c IEEE

^d IEE ^*

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^f SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UCL

^j Laureate TTS System

^k Synthetic Persona Project

^l UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^m BT's Software Engineering Division

ⁿ MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^o YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

INTERACTIVE VOICE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; NATURALNESS; PROSODY; SPEECH GENERATION PROCESS; TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0029772476     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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