@conference{Fotineaetal1998,
author = "Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Vlahakis, M. and Carayannis, George",
abstract = "The relative average duration of vowels were found to have a significant impact on the perception of a given speech rate (tempo) of a Text to Speech Synthesis System (TTS) developed for the Greek language. Even though the duration ratios vary slightly according to segmental context and word prominence, their modification beyond a certain level of tolerance, may result in the perception of a mismatch for the tempo of the modified word in comparison with the tempo selected for the rest.",
address = "Rhodes, Greece",
booktitle = "Proc. EUSIPCO-98, Signal Processing IX, Theories and Applications",
keywords = "durations, speech rate, Greek, TTS",
month = "September 1998",
pages = "1153-1155",
title = "{T}he impact of {R}elative {A}verage {D}uration of vowels in {G}reek on the perception of a constant synthetic speech rate ",
volume = "II",
year = "1998",
}