Towards Personalized Synthesized Voices for Individuals with Vocal Disabilities: Voice Banking and Reconstruction

SLPAT 2013 - 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2013, Workshop Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 107-111

  Veaux, Christophe ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HTS; MND; Speech Synthesis; Voice Banking; Voice Output Communication Aids; Voice Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION AIDS; HTS; MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE; SYNTHESISED; SYNTHETIC VOICES; VOICE BANKING; VOICE MODEL; VOICE OUTPUT; VOICE OUTPUT COMMUNICATION AID; VOICE RECONSTRUCTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85115767348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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