Report on the Third ESCA TTS Workshop Evaluation Procedure

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 293-298

  van Santen, Jan P H ^a   Pols, Louis C W ^b   Abe, Masanobu ^c   Kahn, Dan ^d   Keller, Eric ^e   Vonwiller, Julie ^f  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d E Speech   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f APPEN Speech Technology   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; BUILDING PROCESS; CONSENSUS BUILDINGS; SYNTHESIS EVALUATION; SYSTEM DEVELOPERS; TTS SYSTEMS;

EID: 85133498308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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