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The impact of Relative Average Duration of vowels in Greek on the perception of a constant synthetic speech rate
| Year: | 1998 | ||||
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| Authors: | Stavroula-Evita Fotinea; M. Vlahakis; George Carayannis | ||||
| Volume: | II | ||||
| Book title: | Proc. EUSIPCO-98, Signal Processing IX, Theories and Applications | ||||
| Pages: | 1153-1155 | ||||
| Address: | Rhodes, Greece | ||||
| Date: | September 1998 | ||||
| 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. |
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