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Intelligibility and naturalness of articulatory synthesis with VocalTractLab compared to established speech synthesis technologies 与现有的语音合成技术相比，VocalTractLab的发音合成的可理解性和自然性

11th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW 11) Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.21437/ssw.2021-18

P. K. Krug, Simon Stone, P. Birkholz

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