VocaliD: Personalizing text-to-speech synthesis for individuals with severe speech impairment

ASSETS'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 259-260

  Jreige, Camil ^a   Patel, Rupal ^b   Bunnell, H Timothy ^c  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive communication; Dysarthria; Speech generation devices; Synthesis; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; ASSISTIVE COMMUNICATION; DYSARTHRIA; SPEECH GENERATION; TEXT TO SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 72249121867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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