XML Representation Languages as a Way of Interconnecting TTS Modules

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1889-1892

  Schröder, Marc ^a   Breuer, Stefan ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA REPRESENTATIONS; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; NOCV2; TEXT TO SPEECH; TTS SYSTEMS; XML REPRESENTATION; XML-BASED LANGUAGES;

XML;

EID: 85009097029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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