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Read about the longest English word without a vowel, Rhythm. Learn its meaning, origin, pronunciation, and examples of other ...

Abstract: This paper presents a practical approach to constructing a large-scale speech corpus for corpus-based speech synthesis. This consists of (1) selecting a source text corpus that fits limited ...

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