Presentation	1999/12/3 Talking Machines for Information Access Nick Campbell,
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Abstract(in English)	Speech synthesis is growing in importance as a method of providing voice-based access to digital information. This paper describes the development of personalisable and friendly-sounding voice-interfaces. In particular, it describes 'DATR', a toolkit for speech database creation for raw-waveform concatenative synthesis, and discusses the features that need to be included when creating a corpus for humansounding information presentation. In conclusion, it warns of some security and moral issues that arise when using natural-sounding recognisable-voice synthesis techniques, in order that the rights of the indiviual and the responsibility of the source-provider are taken into consideration.
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Keyword(in English)	voice-based interfaces / opersonalised synthesis / speech databases / features of speech / labelling toolkit / speech copyright
Paper #	TL99-34
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Conference Date	1999/12/3(1days)
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Registration To	Thought and Language (TL)
Language	ENG
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Title (in English)	Talking Machines for Information Access
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Keyword(1)	voice-based interfaces
Keyword(2)	opersonalised synthesis
Keyword(3)	speech databases
Keyword(4)	features of speech
Keyword(5)	labelling toolkit
Keyword(6)	speech copyright
1st Author's Name	Nick Campbell
1st Author's Affiliation	ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories()
Date	1999/12/3
Paper #	TL99-34
Volume (vol)	vol.99
Number (no)	487
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	7
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