Experimental tools to evaluate intelligibility of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis: Effects of voice gender and signal quality

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2045-2048

  Stevens, Catherine ^a   Lees, Nicole ^a   Vonwiller, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b APPEN Speech Technology   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; FEMALE VOICES; LOW QUALITIES; PHONEME DETECTION; SIGNAL QUALITY; TEXT TO SPEECH; TTS SYSTEMS; WORD STIMULUS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85009212430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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