TOOLS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HINDI SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 109-114

  Bali, Kalika ^a   Talukdar, Partha Pratim ^a   Krishna, N Sridhar ^a   Ramakrishnan, A G ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMPOUND WORD EXTRACTION; DIPHONES; GRAPHEME TO PHONEMES; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; TEXT CORPORA; TEXT SEGMENTS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85085599297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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