Listening-test-based annotation of communicative functions for expressive speech synthesis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6231 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 283-290

  Grůber, Martin ^a   Matoušek, Jindřich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

communicative functions; expressive speech synthesis; inter rater agreement measure; listening test

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INTER-RATER AGREEMENT MEASURE; LISTENING TESTS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TESTING;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 78049314640     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15760-8_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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