Learning intonation rules for concept to speech generation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1003-1009

  Pan, Shimei ^a   McKeown, Kathleen ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING; GENERATION TOOLS; INTONATION GENERATIONS; LANGUAGE GENERATION; MACHINE LEARNING MODELS; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; SPEECH GENERATION; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STATISTIC MODELING; TEXT GENERATIONS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85149141160     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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