Revisiting Three Text-to-Speech Synthesis Experiments with a Web-Based Audience Response System

Christina Tånnander, Jens Edlund, Joakim Gustafson


Abstract
In order to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of Audience Response System (ARS) in text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) evaluations, we revisit three previously published TTS studies and perform an ARS-based evaluation on the stimuli used in each study. The experiments are performed with a participant pool of 39 respondents, using a web-based tool that emulates an ARS experiment. The results of the first experiment confirms that ARS is highly useful for evaluating long and continuous stimuli, particularly if we wish for a diagnostic result rather than a single overall metric, while the second and third experiments highlight weaknesses in ARS with unsuitable materials as well as the importance of framing and instruction when conducting ARS-based evaluation.
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2024.lrec-main.1230
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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14111–14121
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Christina Tånnander, Jens Edlund, and Joakim Gustafson. 2024. Revisiting Three Text-to-Speech Synthesis Experiments with a Web-Based Audience Response System. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 14111–14121, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Revisiting Three Text-to-Speech Synthesis Experiments with a Web-Based Audience Response System (Tånnander et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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