Name pronunciation in German text-to-speech synthesis

5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, ANLP 1997 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 49-56

  Jannedy, Stefanie ^a   Möbius, Bernd ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BELL LABS; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; FINITE STATE TRANSDUCERS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTILINGUAL TEXTS; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL NAMES; TEST MATERIALS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TRAINING MATERIAL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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