Proper name pronunciations for speech technology applications

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 175-178

  Spiegel, M F ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

RESEARCH EFFORTS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84966441141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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