Comparing the comprehensibility of different synthetic voices in a dual task experiment

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

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 5-10

  Sonntag, Gerit P ^a   Portele, Thomas ^a   Haas, Felicitas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CODED MODULATION; CONDITION; DUAL-TASKS; HUMAN VOICE; PRIMARY TASK; SECONDARY TASKS; SPEAKING RATE; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC VOICES;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84982942182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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