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A Flexible Architecture for Urdu Phonemes-Based Concatenative Speech Synthesis

Keywords: Articulatory, Text-to-Speech, Formant, Concatenative, Natural Language Processing, Waveforms, Speech Units, Phonemes, Speech Synthesis.

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 35 ,  Issue 3

MUHAMMAD  RIZWAN  AHMAD , MUHAMMAD JUNAID ARSHAD   ,

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