Making Speech Synthesis More Accessible to Older People

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 288-293

  Wolters, Maria ^a   Campbell, Pauline ^b   DePlacido, Christine ^b   Liddell, Amy ^b   Owens, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTEXTUAL CUE; HEARING THRESHOLD; OLDER PEOPLE; OLDER USERS; SCREENING TESTS; SYNTHESIS EXPERIMENT; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; SYNTHETIC VOICES; USER PERFORMANCE; YOUNG USER;

AUDITION;

EID: 85133721598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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