Extending pronunciation by analogy for speech synthesis applications

Automatic pronunciation of unknown words, especially in English, is a hard problem of great importance in speech technology. This thesis focuses on a data-driven approach namely 'pronunciation by analogy', so-called PbA, for generating the p.ronunciation of unknown words from input text. T...

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Main Author: Soonklang, Tasanawan
Published: University of Southampton 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485539

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