Speech synthesis technologies for individuals with vocal disabilities: Voice banking and reconstruction

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AAC; HMM; Speech disorder; Speech synthesis; VOCA

Indexed keywords

AAC; AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HMM; MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE; NEW PROJECTS; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH OUTPUT; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; VOCA;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84855906479     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.33.1     Document Type: Review

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