ON USING CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR CORPUS REDUCTION IN ARABIC TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS

Natheer Khasawneh, Maisa M. Al-Khudair, and Mohammad Fraiwan

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