Multidimensional scaling of listener responses to synthetic speech

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1725-1728

  Mayo, Catherine ^a   Clark, Robert A J ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING (MDS); SUPRASEGMENTAL LEVELS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745218730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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