Bell laboratories Russian text-to-speech system
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This paper describes the Bell Labs Russian text-to-speech system, a concatenative system with extensive text-analysis capabilities. The construction of Russian-specific modules will be discussed, including the text-analysis module, the acoustic inventory, the duration module, and the intonation module.
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The Bell Laboratories Russian Text-to-speech System
This paper describes the Bell Labs Russian text-to-speech system, a concatenative system with extensive text-analysis capabilities. The construction of Russian-specific modules will be discussed, including the text-analysis module, the acoustic inventory, the duration module, and the intonation module.
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