A transformation-based learning approach to language identification for mixed-lingual text-to-speech synthesis

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2249-2252

  Marcadet, J C ^a   Fischer, V ^b   Waast Richard, C ^a  

^a IBM   (France)

^b IBM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; LEARNING APPROACH; STOCHASTIC N-GRAM APPROACH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33745200734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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