Measuring vocal quality with speech synthesis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2560-2566

  Gerratt, B R ^a   Kreiman, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; RATING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

NATURAL TARGET VOICES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; QUALITY CONTROL;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPEECH; SYNTHESIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE QUALITY;

ANALYSIS-SYNTHESIS; AUDITORY STIMULI; DIFFERENCE LIMEN; INTERNAL STANDARDS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; PATHOLOGICAL VOICE; PERCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER;

EID: 0035171456     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1409969     Document Type: Article

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