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  <Title>Morph~lo~leal Decomposition and 5tress Assignment for Speech Synthesis</Title>
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1. Background
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A speech synthesizer is a machine that inputs a stream of text and outputs a speech signal. This paper will discuss a small piece of how words are converted to phonemes.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  Typically words are converted to phonemes in one of two ways: either by looking the words up in a dictionary (with possibly some limited morphological analysis), or by sounding the words out from their spelling using basic principles.</Paragraph>
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