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Profivox—a Hungarian text-to-speech system for telecommunications applications

Olaszy et al., 2000

Document ID
12934329294903365326
Author
Olaszy G
Németh G
Olaszi P
Kiss G
Zainkó C
Gordos G
Publication year
Publication venue
International Journal of Speech Technology

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The latest Hungarian text-to-speech (TTS) system developed for telephone-based applications is described. The main features are intelligible human-like voice; robust software designed for continuous running; fully automatic conversion of declarative (short …
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