The IBM expressive speech synthesis system

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2577-2580

  Hamza, Wael ^a   Bakis, Raimo ^a   Eide, Ellen M ^a   Picheny, Michael A ^a   Pitrelli, John F ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MARKUP LANGUAGES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LIMITED DOMAINS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS MARKUP LANGUAGES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH;

EID: 56149096472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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