Representation and processing of linguistic structures for an all-prosodic synthesis system using XML

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1847-1850

  Huckvale, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ATTRIBUTE-VALUE PAIRS; EXTENSIBLE MARK-UP LANGUAGE (XML); LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; PROSODIC STRUCTURE; PROSODICS; THEORETICAL ASPECTS;

XML;

EID: 84942684516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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