Effect of learning on listening to ultra-fast synthesized speech

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5691-5694

  Nishimoto, Takuya ^a   Sako, Shinji ^a   Sagayama, Shigeki ^a   Ohshima, Kazue ^b   Oda, Koichi ^b   Watanabe, Takayuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; VISION AIDS;

RANDOM NUMBERS; SPEAKING RATE; STATISTICAL MODELS; VISUAL DISABILITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERNET; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

HEARING; HUMANS; INTERNET; LEARNING; MARKOV CHAINS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34047141034     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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