Speech synthesis development and phonetic research—a personal introduction
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Speech synthesis development and phonetic research - a personal introduction
We are now in the process of creating, educating and indoctrinating a third generation of speech synthesis researchers. We are also in the process of developing a third generation of synthesis systems. These generations go hand in hand and some unique researchers span all these generations as can be seen in this issue. The first generation made a breakthrough by creating systems that produced h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Phonetics
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0095-4470
DOI: 10.1016/s0095-4470(19)30312-2