Multi-lingual concatenative speech synthesis
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This paper describes a method of concatenative speech synthesis that makes use of 3-dimensional labelling of speech, and shows how this can be applied to the synthesis of both mono-lingual and foreign-language speech. The dimensions encode phonetic, prosodic, and voicequality information in order to fully describe the acoustic characteristics of each speech segment.
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