Cues for hesitation in speech synthesis

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1300-1303

  Carlson, Rolf ^a   Gustafson, Kjell ^a,b   Strangert, Eva ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Acapela Group Sweden AB   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hesitation; Perception; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; DISFLUENCIES; FINAL LENGTHENING; HESITATION; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 44949121869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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