Knowledge of language origin improves pronunciation accuracy of proper names

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1919-1922

  Llitjos, Ariadna Font ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPLETE COVERAGES; HUMAN LISTENERS; LANGUAGE FEATURES; NOCV1; RANDOM SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MODELING; TEST SETS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84995620255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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