Voice banking and voice reconstruction for MND patients

ASSETS'11: Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 305-306

  Veaux, Christophe ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hts; mnd; voca; voice banking; voice reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AIDS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HTS; MND; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; VOCA; VOICE MODEL; VOICE OUTPUT;

DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEURONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 81855180842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2049536.2049619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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