COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF SIX GERMAN TTS SYSTEMS

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 251-254

  Sonntag, Gerit P ^a   Portele, Thomas ^a   Haas, Felicitas ^a   Köhler, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; EMAIL MESSAGES; HIGH QUALITY; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; TEXT CONVERSION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TTS SYSTEMS; VOICE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85135255291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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