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We present in this chapter the methodology and results of a duration study designed for the Mandarin Chinese text-to-speech system of Bell Laboratories. A greedy algorithm is used to select text from on-line corpora to maximize the coverage of factors that are important to the study of duration. The duration model and some interesting results are discussed.
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Shih, C., Ao, B. (1997). Duration Study for the Bell Laboratories Mandarin Text-to-Speech System. In: van Santen, J.P.H., Olive, J.P., Sproat, R.W., Hirschberg, J. (eds) Progress in Speech Synthesis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1894-4_31
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