Close shadowing natural versus synthetic speech

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1 SPEC., 2003, Pages 11-19

  Bailly, G ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Close shadowing; Evaluation; Prosody; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SYNTHETIC STIMULI;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0037232539     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021091720511     Document Type: Article

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