... nested
free-choice form (Foster and White, 2004). Such
disjunctive LFs can be efficiently realized us-
ing the OpenCCG realizer (White, 2004; White,
2006b; White, 2006a). Note that for the experi-
ments ... not
always) exhibit a considerable dropoff in synthe-
sis quality.
6
And second, the boundaries of the au-
tomatically assigned unit labels were not always
accurate, leading to problems with unnatural ... method can be
employed with any speech synthesizer. Addition-
ally, when features derived from the synthesizer’s
unit selection search can be made available, fur-
ther quality improvements become...
... involved.
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STYLE: IT S NOT WHAT THEY SAY BUT HOW THEY SAY IT
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S
ay this word out loud: “Sure.”
How did you say it? Did you sayit with a smile, as in “Sure, anytime”? Or did you sayit flatly,
as ... sentence with
the word “tranquil” calls the town tranquil
and quiet, and it says that the mall will inter-
fere with these qualities. Since a mall by
nature is big and busy, it is likely that it will
interfere ... change our taste, it can at least help us appreciate different
writers and different styles.
LESSON
Style:
It s Not What
They Say but
How They Say It
LESSON SUMMARY
How a writer puts words together...