Improving the understandability of speech synthesis by modeling speech in noise

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Langner, Brian ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CHANNEL CAPACITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NATURAL SPEECH; SPEECH MODELING; SYNTHESIZERS; SYNTHETIC VOICES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33646819304     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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