A single-chip text-to-speech synthesis device utilizing analog nonvolatile multilevel flash storage

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1582-1589

  Jackson, Geoff ^a   Awsare, Saleel V ^a   Chang, Ming Bing ^a   Chen, Wen Kuei ^a   Doan, Rodney ^a   Holzmann, Peter ^a   Kahn, Dan ^b   Lin, Chuan Shin Rick ^a   Macchi, Marian ^b   Raina, Aditya ^a   Wu, Jesse Bo Hung ^a   Yang, Brian Bor Wen ^a  

^a WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^b E speech Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog storage; Flash CMOS; Multilevel; Nonvolatile; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FLASH MEMORY; MICROCONTROLLERS; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; PULSE CODE MODULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANALOG AUDIO; ANALOG NONVOLATILE MULTILEVEL FLASH STORAGE; DIGITAL AUDIO;

LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0036857093     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.803933     Document Type: Article

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