Robust LTS rules with the Combilex speech technology lexicon

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1295-1298

  Richmond, Korin ^a   Clark, Robert A J ^a   Fitt, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combilex; Grapheme to phoneme conversion; Letter to sound rules

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; HIGH QUALITY; LETTER-TO-SOUND RULES; PRONUNCIATION LEXICON; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY;

LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 70450180978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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