ProSynth: An Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent, Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Hawkins, Sarah ^a   House, Jill ^b   Huckvale, Mark ^b   Local, John ^c   Ogden, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONDITION; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; PROSODICS; ROBUST SIGNALS; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 6344247093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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