The SUS test 1: A method for the assessment of text-to-speech synthesis intelligibility using Semantically Unpredictable Sentences

Speech Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 381-392

  Benoît, Christian ^a   Grice, Martine ^b   Hazan, Valérie ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intelligibility; Multilinguality; Standardization; Synthesis assessment

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

LEXICONS; MINISYLLABIC WORDS; SEMANTICALLY UNPREDICTABLE SENTENCES (SUS); SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030166343     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(96)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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