Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractComparative Evaluation of Phone Duration Models for Greek Emotional SpeechAlexandros Lazaridis, Vasiliki Bourna, Nikos FakotakisProblem statement: In this study we cope with the task of phone duration modeling for Greek emotional speech synthesis. Approach: Various well established machine learning techniques are applied for this purpose to an emotional speech database consisting of five archetypal emotions. The constructed phone duration prediction models are built on phonetic, morphosyntactic and prosodic features that can be extracted only … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2010 · 7,065 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluating Web Usability from the User's PerspectiveHema Banati, Punam Bedi, P.S. GroverThe presence of multiple websites offering similar services has changed the user outlook. The user now prefers to visit those sites, which are easy to use. Many different methods have been proposed to measure usability of a website. The quantitative methods focus on the performance measurement of the website whereas the qualitative methods estimate the user's opinion of a website. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2006 · 8,428 accessesView PDFCite