Dialog speech acts and prosody: Considerations for TTS

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 661-665

  Syrdal, Ann K ^a   Kim, Yeon Jun ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS; DIALOG SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE DIALOGS; MULTIPLE CHOICE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROSODIC CONTROL; PROSODIC FEATURES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902658812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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