Learning to say it well: Reranking realizations by predicted synthesis quality

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1113-1120

  Nakatsu, Crystal ^a   White, Michael ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS VALIDATION; LANGUAGE GENERATORS; RE-RANKING; SPOKEN LANGUAGE DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70450158623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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