A PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF DISTANCE MEASURES FOR CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Wouters, Johan ^a   Macon, Michael W ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DISTANCE MEASURE; DISTANCE-DIFFERENCE; KEY ISSUES; PERCEPTUAL DIFFERENCE; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PERCEPTUAL TEST; SELECTION ALGORITHM; SPEECH CORPORA; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 81155152572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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