Text-to-speech intelligibility across speech rates

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 622-625

  Syrdal, Ann K ^a   Bunnell, H Timothy ^b   Hertz, Susan R ^c   Mishra, Taniya ^a   Spiegel, Murray ^d   Bickley, Corine ^e   Rekart, Deborah ^f   Makashay, Matthew J ^g  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Speech Applications Research Applied Communication Sciences   (United States)

^e GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AT and T   (United States)

^g WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intelligibility; Speech rate; Speech synthesis; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; DIPHONE CONCATENATION; LISTENING TESTS; NORMALIZED EDIT DISTANCE; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SPEECH RATES; SYNTHESIS METHOD; TEXT TO SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84878394226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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