The effect of task conditions on the comprehensibility of synthetic speech

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 321-328

  Lai, Jennifer ^a   Wood, David ^a   Considine, Michael ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Synthetic speech; Text to speech; User study

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; EMAIL MESSAGES; HUMAN SPEECH; NEWS ARTICLES; NOTE-TAKING; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES; TRAINING EFFECTS; USER STUDY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMPREHENSION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

EID: 0033727147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/332040.332451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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