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Name pronunciation in German text-to-speech synthesis

Jannedy et al., 1997

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4424517004664470500
Author
Jannedy S
Möbius B
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Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing

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We describe the name analysis and pronunciation component in the German version of the Bell Labs multilingual text-tospeech system. We concentrate on street names because they encompass interesting aspects of geographical and personal names. The system was …
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