Information fusion approaches to the automatic pronunciation of print by analogy

Information Fusion

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-220

  Damper, R I ^a,b   Marchand, Y ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analogical reasoning; Automatic pronunciation; Rank fusion; Score fusion; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FORMAL LOGIC; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANALOGICAL REASONING; AUTOMATIC PRONUNCIATION; RANK FUSION; SCORE FUSION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33644971589     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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