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ERIC Number: ED617911
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Dec-13
Pages: 6
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Assessing the Quality of TTS Audio in the LARA Learning-by-Reading Platform
Akhlaghi, Elham; Baczkowska, Anna; Berthelsen, Harald; Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Cucchiarini, Catia; Habibi, Hanieh; Horváthová, Ivana; Hvalsøe, Pernille; Lotz, Roy; Maizonniaux, Christèle; Chiaráin, Neasa Ní; Rayner, Manny; Tsourakis, Nikos; Yao, Chunlin
Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the EUROCALL 2021 Conference (29th, Online, Aug 26-27, 2021)
A popular idea in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is to use multimodal annotated texts, with annotations typically including embedded audio and translations, to support L2 learning through reading. An important question is how to create the audio, which can be done either through human recording or by a Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis engine. We may reasonably expect TTS to be quicker and easier, but humans to be of higher quality. Here, we report a study using the open-source LARA platform and ten languages. Samples of LARA audio totaling about three and a half minutes were provided for each language in both human and TTS form; subjects used a web form to compare different versions of the same item and rate the voices as a whole. Although human voice was more often preferred, TTS achieved higher ratings in some languages and was close in others. [For the complete volume, "CALL and Professionalisation: Short Papers from EUROCALL 2021 (29th, Online, August 26-27, 2021)," see ED616972.]
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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