Using TTS voices to develop audio materials for listening comprehension: A digital approach

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 632-641

  Sha, Guoquan ^a  

^a Sichuan Economic Management College   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; AUDIO FILES; LISTENING TESTS; TEXT TO SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION;

EXPERIMENTS;

AUDIO EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77953582306     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01025.x     Document Type: Article

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