DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH DESIGN TOOL “SESIGN99” TO ENHANCE SYNTHESIZED SPEECH

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 2083-2086

  Mizuno, Hideyuki ^a   Abe, Masanobu ^a   Nakajima, Shin'ya ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

multimedia contents; speech design; TTS

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

APPLICATION AREA; DESIGN TOOL; INTERACTIVE MOVIES; MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS; SPEECH DESIGN; SPEECH STYLE; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TTS;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 0006500877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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