In the majority of studies to date, evaluation of synthetic speech has been focussed on segmental intelligibility. However, as the development of text-to-speech systems progresses and real-life applications are getting more common, the need for evaluation at higher levels of linguistic organization becomes increasingly relevant. In the present paper two studies are reported evaluating text-to-speech conversion for Dutch at the level of the paragraph. The first study determined comprehensibility for visually impaired and sighted subjects. The second study examined acceptability of voice-and-speech aspects of synthetic output as a function of experience.
Cite as: Jongenburger, W., Bezooijen, R.v. (1992) Text-to-speech conversion for dutch: comprehensibility and acceptability. Proc. 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1992), 1135-1138, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1992-134
@inproceedings{jongenburger92_icslp,
author={Willy Jongenburger and Renee van Bezooijen},
title={{Text-to-speech conversion for dutch: comprehensibility and acceptability}},
year=1992,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1992)},
pages={1135--1138},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1992-134}
}