Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn 2001-September, Issue , 2001, Pages 2409-2412

  Iida, Akemi ^a,b   Sakurada, Yosuke ^a   Campbell, Nick ^b,c   Yasumura, Michiaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION AIDS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CORPUS-BASED; PHONETICALLY BALANCED; SPEECH CORPORA; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT MATERIALS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84966416328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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