Effect of prosodic naturalness on segmental acceptability in synthetic speech

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 143-146

  Vainio, M ^a   Jarvikivi J ^b   Werner, S ^b   Volk, N ^a   Valikangas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

FINNISH; HIGH QUALITY; OVERALL QUALITY; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79551500223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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