Microsoft Mulan - A bilingual TTS system

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 264-267

  Chu, Min ^a   Peng, Hu ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Niu, Zhengyu ^a   Chang, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS) SYSTEM;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0141480034     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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