Xenophones: An investigation of phone set expansion in Swedish and implications for speech recognition and speech synthesis

In recent years, both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) conversion systems have attained quality levels that allow inclusion in everyday applications. One remaining proble ...

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