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Evaluating text-to-speech systems: Some methodological aspects

✍ Scribed by Renée Van Bezooijen; Louis C.W. Pols

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
685 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-6393

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