Deep syntactic analysis and rule based accentuation in text-to-speech synthesis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5246 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 535-542

  Suni, Antti ^a   Vainio, Martti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finnish; Prosodic prominence; Speech synthesis; Syntactic analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTACTICS;

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; FINNISH; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PREDICTION MODELING; PROSODIC PROMINENCE; RULE-BASED; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS;

SPEECH;

EID: 53049097235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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