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Speech synthesis, as a research tool, has been instrumental in increasing the understanding of the speech communication process. With the help of rules in our text-to-speech system we are able to model the transformation of symbols to sounds (Carlson et al., 1990). This approach has been used for both speech and music, and there are many interesting parallels that we discussed in an earlier paper (Carlson et al., 1989). In this contribution, we will refer to some experiments on speech, designed to better understand the rules of speech performance.
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Carlson, R., Granström, B. (1991). Performance rules in a text-to-speech system. In: Sundberg, J., Nord, L., Carlson, R. (eds) Music, Language, Speech and Brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12670-5_11
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