Measuring vocal quality with speech synthesis
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Measuring vocal quality with speech synthesis.
Much previous research has demonstrated that listeners do not agree well when using traditional rating scales to measure pathological voice quality. Although these findings may indicate that listeners are inherently unable to agree in their perception of such complex auditory stimuli, another explanation implicates the particular measurement method-rating scale judgments-as the culprit. An alte...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.428816