ON THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF SYNTHETIC SPEECH
RL PRATT · 2024
Royal signals and Radar Establishment, Ialvern INIRODUCTION Studies are currently being conducted at this establishment to examine the suitability of speech as an I/O channel for Army Battlefield Data Communications systems.This paper presents the results of a preliminary experiment designed to quantify the intelligibility of 7 commercially available text-to-apeech synthesis systems.Speech intelligibility tests were performed using the Diagnostic Rhyme Test (DRT).andsupplementary data obtained using semantic differential scaling techniques.' mmrcnnrm mas-rm The systems tested were DECTALK, PROSB 2000, CALL TEXT