A spoken language system combines speech recognition, natural language processing and
human interface technology. It functions by recognizing the person's words, interpreting the …

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students
and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English …

We present a stochastic finite-state model for segmenting Chinese text into dictionary entries
and productively derived words, and providing pronunciations for these words; the method …

Explaining speakers' choice of items to emphasize or de-emphasize intonationally has been
an important topic in theoretical linguistics, as well as in applications such as speech …

This paper presents an algorithm for automatically assigning phrase breaks to unrestricted
text for use in a text-to-speech synthesizer. Text is first converted into a sequence of part-of …

Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis: The Bell Labs Approach is the first monograph-length
description of the Bell Labs work on multilingual text-to-speech synthesis. Every important …

Interactive spoken dialogue provides many new challenges for natural language
understanding systems. One of the most critical challenges is simply determining the …

A new RNN-based prosodic information synthesizer for Mandarin Chinese text-to-speech
(TTS) is proposed in this paper. Its four-layer recurrent neural network (RNN) generates …

Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery,
geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educational software …

This thesis is concerned with the synthesis of speech using trainable systems. The research
it describes was conducted with two principle aims: to build a hidden Markov model (HMM) …