Prosody Evaluation as a Diagnostic Process: Subjective vs. Objective Measurements

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 409-418

  Rilliard, Albert ^a   Aubergé, Véronique ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Demarcation function; Evaluation; Prosody; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); SYNTACTICS;

DEMARCATION FUNCTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0142153896     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025717202812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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