Pause duration and variability in read texts

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1109-1112

  Zvonik, Elena ^a   Cummins, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; HIGH DEGREE OF VARIABILITY; NOCV2; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0038631152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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