Prosody modelling in concept-to-speech generation: Methodological issues

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

Volumn 358, Issue 1769, 2000, Pages 1419-1431

  McKeown, Kathleen R ^a   Pan, Shimei ^a  

^a Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept to speech generation; Machine learning; Natural language generation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347307052     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0595     Document Type: Article

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