Segmental intelligibility of four currently used text-to-speech synthesis methods

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2095-2104

  Venkatagiri, Horabail S ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ERROR ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SEGMENTAL INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CODING; DEVICE; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0037381121     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1558356     Document Type: Article

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