Creation of Speech Corpora for the Multilingual Bonn Open Synthesis System

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Klabbers, Esther ^a   Stöber, Karlheinz ^b  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CASE-STUDIES; FLEXIBLE USE; OPEN-SOURCE; SPEECH CORPORA;

EID: 85009088262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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