Phonemic transcription by analogy in text-to-speech synthesis: Novel word pronunciation and lexicon compression

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-142

  Bagshaw, Paul C ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032045825     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1998.0042     Document Type: Article

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