A PHONOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED METHOD OF SELECTING NONUNIFORM UNITS

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Breen, A P ^a   Jackson, P ^a  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; BEST APPROXIMATIONS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SYSTEM USE;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 85128404760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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