Speech Database Design for a Concatenative Text-to-Speech Synthesis System for Individuals with Communication Disorders

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 379-392

  Iida, Akemi ^a   Campbell, Nick ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AAC; Communication disorder; Corpus based TTS synthesis; Speech corpus; VOCA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION DISORDERS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0142153901     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025761017833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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