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Text-to-speech synthesis for welsh and welsh English

4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1995), 1995
This work represents the first known attempt to develop a text-to-speech synthesiser for Welsh. A list of pseudo-Welsh nonsense words was generated, allowing for certain difficulties particular to Welsh. Diphones were derived semi-manually from the recorded nonsense words. The first known phonemic lexicon for Welsh was derived from an electronic corpus.
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The Welsh Office and Welsh Autonomy

Public Administration, 1999
This article examines the claim that, by the late 1980s, the Welsh Office possessed sufficient autonomy to implement policies that diverged from those of the functional Whitehall ministries. Two case studies, housing and education, are examined as these are areas where institutional autonomy and distinctive needs might be expected to be most apparent ...
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The Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary

The Modern Language Journal, 1997
This volume represents the most comprehensive English-Welsh dictionary ever compiled. It opens up the immense resources of a language which not only carries a rich cultural heritage but is changing and adapting to meet increasing use in public administration, the media, education and commercial life.
Alan R. Thomas, Bruce Griffiths, Dafydd Glyn Jones   +2 more
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The Welsh and the Anglo-Welsh: Politics and Poetry

Albion, 1973
The investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales was a magnificently staged pageant, as most of the 500 million people who saw it on television will attest. Two hundred thousand pounds went into the making of the extravaganza of July 1, 1969, an event that Queen Elizabeth had promised to her Welsh subjects as far back as 1958, at the close of the ...
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