A joint intelligibility evaluation of French text-to-speech synthesis systems: The EvaSy SUS/ACR campaign

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2034-2037

  De Mareüil, Philippe Boula ^a   d'Alessandro, Christophe ^a   Raake, Alexander ^a   Bailly, Gérard ^b   Garcia, Marie Neige ^c   Morel, Michel ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ICP   (France)

^c ELDA   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ABSOLUTE CATEGORY RATINGS; DIPHONES; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; IT FOCUS; MEAN OPINION SCORES; SELECTION SYSTEMS; SYNTHESISED; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84964881522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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