Introducing nativization to Spanish TTS systems
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Introducing nativization to Spanish TTS systems
In the modern world, speech technologies must be flexible and adaptable to any framework. Mass media globalization introduces multilingualism as a challenge for the most popular speech applications such as text-to-speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition. Mixed-language texts vary in their nature and when processed, some essential characteristics must be considered. In Spain and other ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Speech Communication
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0167-6393
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.05.009