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The task of assigning appropriate intonation to syntheticspeech is one that requires knowledge of linguistic structure as well ascomputational possibilities. This paper surveys the basic challengesfacing the designer of a text-to-speech system, and reviews some of theperspectives on these problems that have been developed in thelinguistic literature.
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Goldsmith, J. Dealing with Prosody in a Text-to-Speech System. International Journal of Speech Technology 3, 51–63 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009678810697
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