Towards personalized speech synthesis for augmentative and alternative communication

AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 226-236

  Mills, Timothy ^a,c   Bunnell, H Timothy ^b   Patel, Rupal ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assistive communication; Assistive technology; Speaker identity; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AID; DYSARTHRIA; HUMAN; VOICE;

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DYSARTHRIA; HUMANS; VOICE;

EID: 84907046206     PISSN: 07434618     EISSN: 14773848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07434618.2014.924026     Document Type: Article

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