USER ATTITUDES TO CONCATENATED NATURAL SPEECH AND TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS IN AN AUTOMATED INFORMATION SERVICE

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 831-834

  McInnes, F R ^a   Attwater, D J ^b   Edgington, Michael D ^c   Schmidt, Mark S ^d   Jack, Mervyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

IVR; speech concatenation; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTOMATED INFORMATION; AUTOMATED TELEPHONE SERVICES; IVR; NATURAL SPEECH; SPEECH CONCATENATION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRAVEL INFORMATION; USER ATTITUDES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85032414384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Schmidt, M.S., M.A. Jack and F.W.M. Stentiford (1995), Dialogues 2000 - Towards the introduction of best practices in the design of automated telephone services, Proc. Voice Europe 95.
2. Page, J.H., and A.P. Breen (1996), The Laureate text-to-speech system - architecture and applications. BT Technology Journal, vol.14, no 1, pp. 57-67.