Development of an Amharic Text-to-Speech System Using Cepstral Method

EACL 2009 - Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages, AfLaT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 46-52

  Anberbir, Tadesse ^a   Takara, Tomio ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CEPSTRAL; LISTENING TESTS; PROSODIC FEATURES; RULE BASED; SOURCE-FILTER MODELS; SPEECH PRODUCTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYSTEM USE; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; VOCAL-TRACTS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79961210432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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