Training intonational phrasing rules automatically for English and Spanish text-to-speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 281-290

  Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Prieto, Pilar ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATIC TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INTONATIONAL PHRASING RULES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030145829     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(96)00017-9     Document Type: Article

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