Concatenating syllables for response generation in spoken language applications

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 933-936

  Fung, Tien Ying ^a   Meng, H M ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; ALGORITHMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; USER INTERFACES;

BASIC UNITS; CHINESE DIALECTS; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; FOREIGN EXCHANGE; RESPONSE GENERATION; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CHINESE DIALECT; HUMAN COMPUTER SPEECH INTERFACE; SYLLABLE CONCATENATION;

EID: 0033708816     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.859114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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