@InProceedings{Hain2009_291,
<br/>   author = {Horst-Udo Hain and Oliver Jokisch and Luis Coelho},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2009},
<br/>   title = {Multilingual Voice Analysis: Towards Prosodic Correlates of Voice Preference},
<br/>   year = {2009},
<br/>   editor = {Rüdiger Hoffmann},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {215--221},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {Finding an appropriate corporate voice is usally a time-consuming and
laborious task. Additional constraints come into play if the recorded voice is the
basis of a TTS system. Hence a corporate voice approach should retrofit conventional
requirements like high intelligibility and naturalness of the synthetic speech
signal.
The speaker selection is performed in several steps. After a preselection out of several
candidates, the most promising speakers are recorded in a professional studio.
These recordings together with resynthesised samples are then ranked by different
listener groups.
The results of the subjective ranking are compared to objective measurements. First
investigations show correlations between prosodic features and human judgement.
Another conclusion is that although voice preference is a highly subjective decision
and language-dependent, there are cross-language skills among native/non-native
listeners and listeners without any skill in a specific language.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-941298-31-6},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Sprachsynthese und Emotionsmodellierung},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2009_215_221.pdf},
<br/>}