Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2154-2157

  Klabbers, Esther ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a   Van Santen, Jan P H ^b  

^a BioSpeech Inc   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptual evaluation; Prosody modeling; Speech synthesis; Voice transformation

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

HIGH QUALITY; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PERSONALIZED VOICE; PROSODY MODEL; SPEECH GENERATING DEVICES; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; STATE OF THE ART; TARGET SPEAKER; PROSODY MODELING; VOICE TRANSFORMATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959840813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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