Prozed: A multilingual prosody editor for speech synthesis

IEE Colloquium (Digest)

Volumn , Issue 58, 2000, Pages 25-31

  Hirst, Daniel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC DATA; INTONATION PATTERNS; PROSODY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 6344278795     PISSN: 09633308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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