Intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications: The hurricane challenge

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3552-3556

  Cooke, Martin ^a,b   Mayo, Catherine ^c   Valentini Botinhao, Cassia ^c  

^a BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intelligibility; Speech modification; TTS

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

LISTENING TESTS; MASKING SIGNALS; MESSAGE RECEPTION; NATURAL SPEECH; STATIONARY NOISE; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH; TTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84906215016     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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