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The impact of Relative Average Duration of vowels in Greek on the perception of a constant synthetic speech rate

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Year: 1998
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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