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In this paper methods are proposed which can be used to select a set of phonetically balanced sentences. The principle of the methods is presented and some experimental results are given. In the end of the paper the use of the proposed methods for the Czech read-speech corpus design is described in detail and the structure of the corpus is explained.
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Radová, V., Vopálka, P. (1999). Methods of Sentences Selection for Read-Speech Corpus Design. In: Matousek, V., Mautner, P., Ocelíková, J., Sojka, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48239-3_30
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