A model of the regularities underlying speaker variation: Evidence from hybrid synthesis

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1249-1252

  Hertz, Susan R ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Consonant perception; Speaker identification; Speech perception model; Speech synthesis; Speech variation

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HYBRID MODEL; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER VARIATION; SPEECH MODELING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949164829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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