Normalization of text messages for text-to-speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4842-4845

  Pennell, Deana L ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Abbreviation; Text messages; Text normalization; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATION; ENGLISH WORD; LEARN+; NORMALISATION; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; TEXT MESSAGE; TEXT NORMALISATION; TEXT TO SPEECH; TEXTING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 78049411746     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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