SPEECH TIMING IN SLOVENIAN TTS

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 323-326

  Gros, J ^a   Pavesic N ^a   Mihelic F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MODELING LANGUAGES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

DURATION MODELLING; DURATION PREDICTIONS; RATE TEST; SEGMENT DURATION; SLOVENIAN LANGUAGE; SPEAKING RATE; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TWO-LEVEL APPROACH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85135180981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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