Phonetic effects on listener detection of vowel concatenation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 979-982

  Syrdal, Ann K ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDIBLE DISCONTINUITIES; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DETECTION-OF-DISCONTINUITIES; DISCONTINUITY DETECTION; HUMAN DETECTION; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PHONETIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009151528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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