Producing contextually appropriate intonation in an information-state based dialogue system

10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 227-234

  Kruijff Korbayová, Ivana ^a   Ericsson, Stina ^b   Rodríguez, Kepa J ^a   Karagjosova, Elena ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STATE; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; STATE BASED; SYSTEM OUTPUT; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 10044243236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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