A bootstrapping approach to automating prosodic annotation for limited-domain synthesis

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 115-118

  Bulyko, I ^a   Ostendorf, M ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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CHEMISTRY;

CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; LABOR INTENSIVE PROCESS; LIMITED DOMAINS; PHRASE STRUCTURE; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33947622027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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