Disfluent speech analysis and synthesis: A preliminary approach

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Adell, Jordi ^a,b   Bonafonte, Antonio ^a,b   Escudero, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; USER INTERFACES;

ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; DISFLUENCIES; HIGH QUALITY; NEW APPLICATIONS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; PRELIMINARY APPROACH; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SPEECH USER INTERFACES; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84910085001     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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