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  <Title>THE PARSODY SYSTEM : AUTOMATIC PREDICTION OF PROSODIC BOUNDARIES FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH</Title>
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THE PARSODY SYSTEM : AUTOMATIC PREDICTION OF PROSODIC BOUNDARIES
FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH
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    <Paragraph position="0"> tel +44-473-645384, e-mail : sminnis@bt-sys.bt.co.uk@unet As commercial text-to-speech systems move above the word level to the sentence level, the prediction of the correct prosodic information becomes a significant factor in the perceived naturalness of the synthesised speech.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This article reports on &amp;quot;Parsody&amp;quot;, an experimental system which combines a partial parser with a prosodic marking component to predict the location and relative strength of prosodic boundaries in text.</Paragraph>
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