This paper introduces the Gong system, an Internet-based voice board system designed primarily for language learners which includes special support for Cantonese. The Gong system i...
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Sign board detection is important for such computer vision applications as video surveillance and content based visual information retrieval. Previous researches on this topic foc...
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This paper presents a stochastic model of intonation contours for use in text-to-speech s. The model has two modules, a linguistic module that generates abstract prosodic rom text...