Multilingual voice creation toolkit for the Mary TTS platform

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3750-3756

  Pammi, Sathish ^a   Charfuelan, Marcela ^a   Schröder, Marc ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; USER INTERFACES;

ENTRANCE BARRIER; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUI); MANDARIN CHINESE; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; RESEARCH GROUPS; REUSABLE TECHNOLOGY; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; SYNTHETIC VOICES;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84978442961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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