Basic research and implementation decisions for a text-to-speech synthesis system in Romanian

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 211-225

  Burileanu, Dragos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Diphone concatenation; Linguistic knowledge; Natural language processing; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TEXT PROCESSING;

DIPHONE CONCATENATION; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0036752724     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020236605813     Document Type: Article

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