Duration modeling for Arabic text to speech synthesis

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1773-1776

  Hifny, Yasser ^a   Rashwan, Mohsen ^a,b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DEVELOPED MODEL; DURATION MODELING; NEURAL NETWORK (NN); PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS; PROSODY GENERATIONS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 77952314450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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