When will synthetic speech sound human: Role of rules and data

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Van Santen, Jan ^a   Macon, Michael ^a   Cronk, Andrew ^a   Hosom, Paul ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a   Pagel, Vincent ^a   Wouters, Johan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BUILDING SYSTEMS; GENERAL-PURPOSE SYSTEMS; LIMITED DOMAINS; OVERALL QUALITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION; STATISTICAL ALGORITHM; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; USER ACCEPTANCE;

SPEECH;

EID: 85009080972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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