Comprehension of KTH text-to-speech with "listening speed" paradigm
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The comprehension of natural and synthetic speech in Swedish and American English was investigated using a sentence-by-sentence listening paradigm. The synthesized speech was generated by the KTH text-to-speech systems. Results indicated that sentence listening times were signzficantly longer only for American English synthetic speech as compared to natural speech. Text dijjjculty was found to be a signijkant variable in both Swedish and American English for sentence listening times and word recognition, and only in American English for proposition recognition. The results are discussed in terms of the quality of the synthesizers and factors involved in comprehension.
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