Concept-to-speech synthesis by phonological structure matching

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1769, 2000, Pages 1403-1417

  Taylor, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Phonology; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346045816     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0594     Document Type: Article

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