European Conference on Speech Technology Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 1987

Text-to-Speech Synthesis in the French Electronic Mail Environment

Christel Sorin (1), Raymond Descout (1), Christian Benoît (1), Francoise Emerard (1), C. Fluhr (2), Danielle Larreur (1), J. L. Le Saint-Milon (1), Eric Moulines (1), R. Peron (1)

(1) Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications, Lannion, France
(2) SYSTEX, Paris, France

At the present time, one of the most popular application of the text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis technique in the telecommunication area is the "text-to-voice" service allowing E-mail users to access their mailbox through an ordinary touch-tone telephone for receiving a voice output of their messages (BERNEY, 1985). We present here the specific problems encountered in French, and the adopted solutions for adapting the CNET's synthesis system to this specific application.

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Bibliographic reference.  Sorin, Christel / Descout, Raymond / Benoît, Christian / Emerard, Francoise / Fluhr, C. / Larreur, Danielle / Saint-Milon, J. L. Le / Moulines, Eric / Peron, R. (1987): "Text-to-speech synthesis in the French electronic mail environment", In ECST-1987, 2260-2263.