The German text-to-speech synthesis system MARY: A tool for research, development, and teaching
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The German Text-to-Speech Synthesis system MARY is presented. An interface allowing to access and modify intermediate processing steps without the need for a technical understanding of the system is described, along with examples of how this interface can be put to use in research, development and teaching.
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