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This chapter is intended to illustrate the role of lexica in the development of text-to-speech synthesis systems. It will not be concerned with theoretical issues of lexicography, rather it will provide concrete descriptions of the tasks where lexica are required and of the alternatives and choices faced by speech-technology researchers. Both lexica in text-to-speech and lexica for text-to-speech will be considered, that is both the questions of the in-system implementation of lexical knowledge and of the extraction of linguistic information from external lexical sources.
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Quazza, S., van den Heuvel, H. (2000). The Use of Lexica in Text-to-Speech Systems. In: Van Eynde, F., Gibbon, D. (eds) Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing. Text, Speech and Language Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9458-0_7
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