Modeling durational variability in reading aloud a connected text

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1769-1772

  Smith, Caroline L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AMERICAN ENGLISH; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009288419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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