Description of the AhoTTS Conversion System for the Basque Language

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Hernaez, Inma ^a   Navas, Eva ^a   Murugarren, Juan Luis ^a   Etxebarria, Borja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

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CONVERSION SYSTEMS; MODULARS;

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