SYNTHESIZER VOICE QUALITY OF NEW LANGUAGES CALIBRATED WITH MEAN MEL CEPSTRAL DISTORTION

SLTU 2008 - 1st International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-68

  Kominek, John ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CEPSTRAL; LISTENING TESTS; METHOD OF CALIBRATIONS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PHONESET; PHONETICALLY BALANCED; PRONUNCIATION LEXICON; SPECTRAL ACCURACY; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 78649238036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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