Xenophones: An investigation of phone set expansion in Swedish and implications for speech recognition and speech synthesis

Speech Communication

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 81-102

  Eklund, Robert ^a,b   Lindström, Anders ^a,b  

^a Telia Research AB   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Multi linguality; Phonetic expansion; Phonology; Second language acquisition (SLA); Text to speech conversion (TTS); Xenophones

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE SETS;

PHONE SET EXPANSION; XENOPHONES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035426930     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00097-2     Document Type: Article

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