Linguistic-prosodic processing for text-to-speech synthesis in Italian

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  De Mareüil, Philippe Boula ^a  

^a Ean Informatique a Lernout and Hauspie Company   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CHUNK GRAMMAR; FUNCTION WORDS; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; LEXICAL STRESS ASSIGNMENT; NORMALISATION; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; PROSODY GENERATIONS; SHALLOW PARSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009062654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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