CHILD-DIRECTED SPEECH SYNTHESIS: EVALUATION OF PROSODIC VARIATION FOR AN EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER PROGRAM

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1843-1846

  House, David ^a   Bell, Linda ^a   Gustafson, Kjell ^a   Johansson, Linn ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

child directed speech; evaluation; prosody; speaking styles; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CHILD-DIRECTED SPEECH; CONTROL GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER PROGRAMS; EVALUATION; FORMANT SYNTHESIS; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODICS; PROSODY; SPEAKING STYLES; SYNTHESIS EVALUATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85135258866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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