Speaking technical documents: Using prosody to convey textual and mathematical material

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

Volumn 2398, Issue , 2002, Pages 494-501

  Fitzpatrick, D ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCOMPUTERS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE; LARGE AMOUNTS; NATURAL SPEECH; PORTABLE COMPUTERS; SPEECH SIGNALS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS; TECHNICAL INFORMATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70350278813     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45491-8_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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