Crafting Small Databases for Unit Selection TTS: Effects on Intelligibility

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 40-44

  Bunnell, H Timothy ^a  

^a NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

database content; database size; intelligibility; personal synthetic voices; speech synthesis; unit selection

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMMUNICATION AIDS; DATABASE CONTENTS; DATABASE SIZE; INTELLIGIBILITY; PERSONAL SYNTHETIC VOICE; PERSONAL USE; SPEECH DATABASE; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; SYNTHETIC VOICES; UNIT SELECTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84907049577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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