INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Speech Research Laboratory
Department of Psychology
Psychology Building
Bloomington, IN 47405


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HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION AND PROJECT



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PROJECT: PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS (19   - 19    )


1979 Pisoni, D.B., "Some measures of intelligibility and
     comprehension," Research on Speech Perception Progress
     Report No.  5 (1978-79), Indiana Univ., 1979.  Also in 1980
     MIT book by Allen, etal.


1980 Pisoni, D.B., and S. Hunnicutt, "Perceptual evaluation of
     MITalk: the MIT unrestricted text-to-speech system," Proc.
     ICASSP-80, 572-575 (1980). Hunnicutt was with RLE, MIT. (K)

     SSSHP 33 Tape: "MITalk, TSI Comparisons (Pisoni Tests) 1980",
           by D.B. Pisoni, 9/26/80. Copy made 12/23/82 of N.R.
           Dixon's copy, IBM. Some print-through echos in some
           sections.

          ("Northwind" passage, MITalk. "Estes Chapter", MITalk.
            Modified Rhyme test, 10 trials, MITalk.
            Harvard sentences, 10 trials, MITalk.
            Haskins sentences, 10 trials, MITalk.
           "Lens Buyer" passage, MITalk and TSI.
           "Noise Pollution" passage, MITalk and TSI)
            Cassette, fair quality, copy of N.R. Dixon copy

     SSSHP 114.3 Tape: "MITalk Speech from development, 1978-1979,
          MIT, Apr 2001." Sect 3: Test material for evaluation of 
          MITalk. From Sheri Hunnicutt's collection.

          (syn: Harvard Psychoacoustic Sentences and Haskins Anomal-
           ous Sentences.)
          Cassette, fair quality, analog copy of DAT


1985 Pisoni, D.B., H.C. Nusbaum, and B.G. Greene, "Perception of
     synthetic speech generated by rule," Proc. IEEE 73,
     1665-1676 (1985).  Word intelligibility tests using Harvard
     test sentences and Haskins anomalous sentences on Prose-2000,
     MITALK-79, DECtalk, Haskins System, and natural speech.  (K)

     Tape?


1985 Logan, J.S., D.B. Pisoni, and B.G.  Greene, "Measuring the
     segmental intelligibility of synthetic speech:  results from
     eight text-to-speech systems," submitted to J. Acoust. Soc.
     Am. in 1986.  Tests of Type-n-Talk, Infovox, MITalk-79,
     Prose-2000 3.0, DECtalk 1.8, Haskins System, Natural Speech.
     (K)

     Tape?


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PROJECT: IMPROVED KLATT SPEECH SYNTHESIZER PROGRAM (1977 - 1981)


1977 Kewley-Port, D., "KLTEXC V5.0 Reference Manual", August 1977
     (updated to October 1981), 24 pp. (Copy SSSHP 169 in Indiana 
     Univ. file)

     Improvements to FORTRAN Klatt synthesis software, referenced 
     by current speech perception papers.  (K)

     SSSHP 168 Program: KLTEXC, improved Klatt 1980 speech synthe-
          sis program by Diane Kewley-Port. 25 files on PC diskette,
          163 KB, including compressed file KLATT80.ZIP.
     


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BIOGRAPHIES


B. G. GREENE

M. SHARON (SHERI) HUNNICUTT  (See SSSHP USA MIT page)


DIANE KEWLEY-PORT

1964 B.S., science engineering, Univ. of Michigan 
1968 M.S., communications science, Univ. of Michigan  
1981 Ph.D. speech sciences, City University of New York 


J. S. LOGAN


H. C. NUSBAUM


DAVID B. PISONI

1968 B.A., Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing
1969-71 Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Michigan
1971 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1971-96 Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Indiana
     University, Bloomington
1973 Director, Speech Research Laboratory, Indiana University
1975-76 Post-doctoral Fellowship, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1978-79 Guggenheim Fellow, Speech Communications Group, MIT


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