This paper describes an eye tracking experiment to study the processing of diphone synthesis, unit selection synthesis, and human speech taking segmental and suprasegmental speech quality into account. The results showed that both factors influenced the processing of human and synthetic speech, and confirmed that eye tracking is a promising albeit time consuming research method to evaluate synthetic speech.
Cite as: Hooijdonk, C.v., Commandeur, E., Cozijn, R., Krahmer, E., Marsi, E. (2007) The online evaluation of speech synthesis using eye movements. Proc. 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 6), 385-390
@inproceedings{hooijdonk07_ssw,
author={Charlotte van Hooijdonk and Edwin Commandeur and Reinier Cozijn and Emiel Krahmer and Erwin Marsi},
title={{The online evaluation of speech synthesis using eye movements}},
year=2007,
booktitle={Proc. 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 6)},
pages={385--390}
}