Automatic diacritic restoration for a TTS-based e-mail reader application

UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C: Electrical Engineering

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 3-12

  Ungurean, Cǎtǎlin ^a   Burileanu, Dragoş ^a,b   Popescu, Vladimir ^a,c   Negrescu, Cristian ^a   Derviş, Aurelian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Diacritic restoration; N grams; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMMON PROBLEMS; DIACRITIC RESTORATION; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGES; N-GRAMS; READER APPLICATIONS; RESTORATION ALGORITHMS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; STATISTICAL STRATEGIES; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRAINING CORPORA; TTS SYSTEMS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 57149129855     PISSN: 22863540     EISSN: 22863559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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