What makes a good speaker? Subject ratings, acoustic measurements and perceptual evaluations

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1688-1691

  Strangert, Eva ^a   Gustafson, Joakim ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurements; Prosody; Speaker skill; Subject ratings; Synthesis evaluation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; PROSODY; SPEAKER SKILL; SUBJECT RATINGS; SYNTHESIS EVALUATION;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; EXTRACTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867211140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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