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The IBM expressive text-to-speech synthesis system for American English

Pitrelli et al., 2006

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16863895660257050317
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Pitrelli J
Bakis R
Eide E
Fernandez R
Hamza W
Picheny M
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IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

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Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis should contribute to the pleasantness, intelligibility, and speed of speech-based human-machine interactions which use TTS. We describe a TTS engine which can be directed, via text markup, to use a variety of expressive …
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