Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

• Publication date

  2006-07-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/TASL.2006.876129
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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