Profivox - a Hungarian text-to-speech system for telecommunications applications

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 201-215

  Olaszy, G ^a   Nemeth G ^a   Olaszi, P ^a   Kiss, G ^a   Zainko Cs ^a   Gordos, G ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

SPECIFIC SOUND DURATIONS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0034476531     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026558915015     Document Type: Article

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