A study on the effect of speech rate on perception of spoken easy Japanese using speech synthesis

Author

Prafianto, Hafiyan ; Nose, Takashi ; Chiba, Ryosuke ; Ito, Akinori ; Sato, Kiminori

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

7-9 July 2014

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

479

Abstract

“Easy Japanese” is a controlled natural language, which is designed to convey information correctly in Japanese language to people of various nationalities. In this research, we used synthesized speech with various speech rates to investigate how the speech rate correlates with the perception of Easy Japanese for non-native speakers of Japanese. As a result, we found that the speech rates of 320 and 360 mora per minute are perceived to be close to the ideal speech rate.

Keywords

natural language processing; speech synthesis; Japanese language; controlled natural language; non-native speakers; speech rate; speech synthesis; spoken Easy Japanese perception; Auditory system; Educational institutions; Indium tin oxide; Natural languages; Speech; Speech synthesis; Writing; Easy Japanese; speech perception; speech rate; speech synthesis; spoken language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3902-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALIP.2014.7009839

Filename

7009839

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1798679