THE CSELT SYSTEM FOR ITALIAN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 2091-2094

  Balestri, Marcello ^a   Lazzaretto, Stefano ^a   Salza, Pier Luigi ^a   Sandri, Stefano ^a  

^a CSELT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diphone synthesis; Italian language; Text to Speech System

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; REAL TIME CONTROL; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TEXT PROCESSING;

DIPHONE SYNTHESIS; DIPHONES; GENERAL ARCHITECTURES; ITALIAN LANGUAGE; MULTILEVELS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT ANALYSIS; TEXT-PROCESSING; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 1542466595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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