Title
Exploration of acoustic correlates in speaker selection for concatenative synthesis
Abstract
It is often difficult to determine the suitabilityof a speaker to serve as a model for concatenativetext-to-speech synthesis. The perceived quality of aspeaker's natural voice is not necessarily predictive of its(even relative) synthetic quality. The selection of femaleand male speakers on whom to base two synthetic voicesfor the new AT&T text-to-speech system was made empirically.Brief readings of identical text materials wererecorded from pre-selected professional speakers (6...
Year
Venue
Keywords
1998
ICSLP
text to speech,speech synthesis
Field
DocType
Citations 
Speech corpus,Concatenative synthesis,Computer science,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing
Conference
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.06
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ann K. Syrdal124433.00
Alistair Conkie226438.03
Yannis Stylianou31436140.45