A multistrategy approach to improving pronunciation by analogy

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 194-219

  Marchand, Yannick ^a   Damper, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION METHOD; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; INDIVIDUAL SCORES; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PRODUCT RULE; SUM RULE; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; WORD ACCURACIES;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 0039255896     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120100561674     Document Type: Article

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