IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION BY ANALOGY FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH APPLICATIONS

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 53-58

  Damper, R I ^a   Marchand, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MATCHINGS; SIMPLE++; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; TEXT TO SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84866428221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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