The effect of filled pauses and speaking rate on speech comprehension in natural, vocoded and synthetic speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 56-60

  Dall, Rasmus ^a   Wester, Mirjam ^a   Corley, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disfluency; Filled pause; HMM synthesis; Reaction time; Speaking rate; Speech perception; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN REACTION TIME; REACTION RATES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DISFLUENCY; FILLED PAUSE; NATURAL SPEECH; SPEAKING RATE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATES; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84910034043     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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