Speech Prosodics for Synthesis – Perspectives
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چکیده
Speech synthesis systems still fail in producing acceptable prosodies. We are developing a research strategy designed to de-focus attention on the objective acoustic accuracy of synthetic speech in favour of enhancing the speech to optimize a listener’s ability to repair ‘damaged’ signals. To do this we need to know more about how listeners repair errors and how we might trigger the repair processes: we believe that there is much to be gained from this approach to improved speech synthesis.
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