A Pronunciation-by-Analogy Module for the Festival Text-to-Speech Synthesiser

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Damper, Robert I ^a   Stanbridge, Craig Z ^a   Marchand, Yannick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

BRITISH ENGLISH; DATA DRIVEN TECHNIQUE; EMPIRICAL MOTIVATION; NEW RESULTS; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; WORKERS';

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