The German Text-to-Speech Synthesis System MARY: A Tool for Research, Development and Teaching

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 365-377

  Schröder, Marc ^a   Trouvain, Jürgen ^b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotions; Markup languages; Speech synthesis; Teaching in speech technology; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SYNTACTICS; XML;

MARKUP LANGUAGES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0142247093     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025708916924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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