SYNTHESISING CONTEXTUALLY APPROPRIATE INTONATION IN LIMITED DOMAINS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 91-96

  Baker, Rachel ^a   Clark, Robert A J ^a   White, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; XML;

ADDITIONAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATED SCRIPTS; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; FLIGHT INFORMATION; LARGE VOCABULARY; LIMITED DOMAINS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; PILOT STUDIES; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 79953131376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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