A Study on Vietnamese Prosody
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چکیده
In the current paper, the Vietnamese prosody was analyzed in order to produce a natural Vietnamese synthesizer. Word duration in texts recorded by various human voices was measured to test several hypotheses for logical segments of the utterances in a sentence. The sound files were analyzed and interpreted by several statistical calculations.
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