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The problem of translating text to speech is usually approached at the phoneme level using a rule-based system. A rule based system specifies how each letter, or group of letters, will be translated into a basic unit of sound, a phoneme. These rules are very context sensitive, depending on possibly lengthy left and right contexts. The rule based approach in Elovitz [1] and also in Yannakoudakis
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Gold, G. (1991). A word to phoneme translator. In: Sherwani, N.A., de Doncker, E., Kapenga, J.A. (eds) Computing in the 90's. Great Lakes CS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 507. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038474
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