Comparison of subjective evaluation and an objective evaluation metric for prosody in text-to-speech synthesis

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 1-4

  Hirst, Daniel ^a   Rilliard, Albert ^b   Aubergé, Véronique ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

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Indexed keywords

MAMMALS;

COMPUTER SCREENS; EVALUATION METRICS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GRAPHICS DISPLAY; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PROSODICS; SPEECH SIGNALS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TTS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84966352089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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