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The sound database formation for the allophone-based model for english concatenative speech synthesis. / Evgrafova, Karina.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2005. p. 219-225 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3658 LNAI).

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Evgrafova, K 2005, The sound database formation for the allophone-based model for english concatenative speech synthesis. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 3658 LNAI, pp. 219-225, 8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2005, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 12/09/05.

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Evgrafova, K. (2005). The sound database formation for the allophone-based model for english concatenative speech synthesis. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 219-225). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3658 LNAI).

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Evgrafova K. The sound database formation for the allophone-based model for english concatenative speech synthesis. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2005. p. 219-225. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Evgrafova, Karina. / The sound database formation for the allophone-based model for english concatenative speech synthesis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2005. pp. 219-225 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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