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From: Leon@lfheller.demon.co.uk (Leon Heller)
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Subject: Re: Evaluating Synthesised Speech
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In article <39m10b$khj@mercury.dur.ac.uk>
           I.H.Morgan@durham.ac.uk "I.H Morgan" writes:

> Hi !
>  I'm doing some work on copy synthesis, and I will need to compare some
> synthesised speech with the original speech sample. 
>  I would therefore be interested in any information on, or references to,
> methods for using human listeners to quantitatively compare a sample of
> synthesised speech, with either the original human speech, or another
> synthesised sample, (of the same words.) (I'm thinking of considering overall
> `intelligibility', number of words correctly recognised, and simple preference
> between two samples, but I'd be interested in other ideas, and in the
> statistics needed to analyse the results.)
>  Many thanks,
> Ivor Morgan

DEF STAN 00-25 Part 9 (published by the MOD) has something on this. It's
not restricted, and your library should be able to get hold of it. The
Modified Rhyme Test and Diagnostic Rhyme Test are recommended. The DRT
is covered in Speech Intelligibility and Speaker Recognition, (Ed) Hawley,
ME, Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc. Stroudsberg, USA.

Leon
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