SPRUCE — High Specification Text-to-Speech Synthesis
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[Note: The presentation in this publication is oriented toward the synthesis properties per se of SPRUCE in view of the general theme of the conference. However, the main objective of the overall SPRUCE project was and remains the building of a computational model of human speech production. This objective should not be confused with what we perceive to be the ‘simpler’ task of engineering a device to convert text to speech without due regard to a formal model of human speech production.]
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تاریخ انتشار 2008