Comparative evaluation of synthetic prosody with the PURR method

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Sonntag, Gerit P ^a   Portele, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; HUMAN VOICE; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; PROSODICS; REPRESENTATION METHOD; SPEECH STIMULI; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYNTHESISED; TEST DESIGNS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 12344260444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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