Towards including prosody in a text-to-speech system for modern standard Arabic

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-103

  Ramsay, Allan ^a   Mansour, Hanady ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Modern standard Arabic; Prosody; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

DIACRITIC ASSIGNMENT; MODERN STANDARD ARABIC; VOWELS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548288433     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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