Discrimination and perception of the acoustic rendition of texts by blind people

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

Volumn 4556 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages 205-213

  Argyropoulos, Vassilis ^a   Papadopoulos, Konstantinos ^b   Kouroupetroglou, Georgios ^c   Xydas, Gerasimos ^c   Katsoulis, Philippos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Discrimination of synthetic speech; Paronym words; Synthetic speech perception; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

PARONYM WORDS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 38149133089     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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