Contrastive accent in a data-to-speech system

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1997-July, Issue , 1997, Pages 519-521

  Theune, Mariët ^a  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

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LANGUAGE GENERATION; SPEECH SYSTEMS; SPOKEN LANGUAGES;

EID: 44849116445     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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