Slovenian text-to-speech synthesis for speech user interfaces

Proceedings - WEC'05: 3rd World Enformatika Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 216-220

  Gros, Jerneja Žganec ^a,b   Mihelič, Aleš ^b   Pavešić, Nikola ^a   Žganec, Mario ^b   Gruden, Stanislav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b ALPINEON D O O   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Prosody modeling; Speech user interface; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SET THEORY; USER INTERFACES;

PROSODY MODELING; SPEECH USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 30844433068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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