Filled pauses in speech synthesis: Towards conversational speech

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4629 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 358-365

  Adell, Jordi ^a   Bonafonte, Antonio ^a   Escudero, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; TEXT READING TASKS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 38049150498     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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