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  <Title>Statistical Modeling for Unit Selection in Speech Synthesis</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We thank Mark Beutnagel for helping us clarify some of the details of the unit selection system in the AT&amp;T Natural Voices Product speech synthesizer. Mark also generated the training corpora and set up the listening test used in our experiments.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We also acknowledge discussions with Brian Roark about various statistical language modeling topics in the context of unit selection.</Paragraph>
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