Tools and Basque Language Databases Developed in the Aholab Laboratory
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This paper gives an overview of the speech material used and generated in our laboratory (AhoLab), as well as of the software tools developed for its management. The databases were created in the context of the development of a text to speech converter for Basque, in the different fields of research. The software here described is freely available and is currently being used by some educational centre and individuals.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000