DESCRIPTION OF THE BELL LABS INTONATION SYSTEM

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 329-332

  van Santen, Jan P H ^a   Möbius, Bernd ^a   Venditti, Jennifer J ^a   Shih, Chilin ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BELL LABS; INTONATION MODELING; ROMANIANS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

BELLS;

EID: 85133531761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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