Bi-directional Conversion Between Graphemes and Phonemes Using a Joint N-gram Model

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Galescu, Lucian ^a   Allen, James F ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MODELING PERFORMANCE; N-GRAM MODELS; STATISTIC MODELING;

EID: 44949214224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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