The Laureate text-to-speech system - Architecture and applications

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-67

  Page, J H ^a,b   Breen, A P ^{b,c,d,e,f,g,h}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b BT ^*

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UCL

^g Laureate ITS System

^h Synthetic Persona Project

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONCATENATED SPEECH; DIGITAL RECORDING; HUMAN COMMUNICATION MECHANISM; LAUREATE SYSTEM; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0029780634     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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