Applied Phonetics: Portuguese Text-to-Speech
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چکیده
This paper describes a text-to-speech application for a variety of Brazilian Portuguese. After presenting the language’s phonetic attributes, the orthographic system is examined and shown to be a function that maps letters to these sounds. Given the orthography’s phonological regularity, it is simple to implement the textual analysis portion of a speech synthesis system, as I demonstrate with some simple Perl code.
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