Using acoustic models to choose pronunciation variations for synthetic voices

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2937-2940

  Bennett, Christina L ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION; REDUCED PRONUNCIATION; SYNTHETIC VOICES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84976225982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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