The German Text-to-Speech Synthesis System MARY: A Tool for Research, Development and Teaching

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Schröder, Marc ^a   Trouvain, Jürgen ^b  

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

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROCESSING STEPS; RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT; TECHNICAL UNDERSTANDING; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

EID: 85133419910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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