Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Black, Alan W ^a   Lenzo, Kevin A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEXICON; MULTILINGUAL VOICES; ORTHOGRAPHY; PHONEME SETS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SOUND RECORDING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 4544375503     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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