A system for creating personalized synthetic voices

ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 196-197

  Yarrington, Debra ^a   Pennington, Chris ^a   Gray, John ^a   Bunnell, H Timothy ^b  

^a AgoraNet Inc   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC); Lou Gehrig's disease; Speech Synthesis; Synthetic Voices

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS); AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAC); LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASES; SYNTHETIC VOICES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 32344446555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1090785.1090827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. H. T. Bunnell, J. Gray, C. Pennington, and D. Yarrington, "Automatic construction of concatenative speech synthesis databases for AAC.," presented at American Speech Language and Hearing Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2004.
4. Beukelman, D. and Gutmann, M. (1999): http://aac.unl.edu/ALS_Message_List1.htm