To mix or not to mix synthetic speech and human speech? Contrasting impact on judge-rated task performance versus self-rated performance and attitudinal responses

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-131

  Gong, Li ^a   Lai, Jennifer ^b  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Mixing human speech and synthetic speech; Speech interfaces; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SPEECH PROCESSING; TEXT PROCESSING;

SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH;

EID: 0037377313     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022382413579     Document Type: Article

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