In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Dodge presents Creating an African American-Sounding TTS: Guidelines, Technical Challenges, and Surprising Evaluations, by Pinhanez et al. In it, the authors go through a process of working with stakeholders to develop a text-to-speech system that sounds African-American and then carry out evaluations on that system.
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