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Some measures of intelligibility and comprehension
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Test. However, none of the subjects in the listening comprehension group had
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been in any of the prior intelligibility or word-recognition tests using synthetic
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speech.
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13.4.1.2 Stimuli Fifteen narrative passages were chosen more or less randomly
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from several published adult reading comprehension tests. The exact details of the
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passages and their original sources are provided in Table 13-1 below. An example
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of one of the passages is provided in Appendix G.
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Table 13-1: Characteristics of the passages used to measure comprehension
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Number
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Passage Number Duration of test General topic Source
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of words (s) questions
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1 212 75 6 lens buying Coop English
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2 159 56 4 measuring distance Coop English
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to nearby stars
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3 327 135 8 language Iowa
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4 198 75 4 retail institutions Nelson-Denny
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5 175 70 4 noise pollution Nelson-Denny
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6 204 82 4 geology Nelson-Denny
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7 206 68 4 philosophy Nelson-Denny
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8 207 80 4 radioactive dating Nelson-Denny
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9 292 117 8 history Iowa
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10 315 100 9 sea Towa
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11 265 101 7 New Mexico Stanford
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12 322 125 6 fox hunting Stanford
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13 253 98 6 Claude Debussy Stanford
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14 267 107 7 Aluminum Stanford
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15 212 82 6 Roger Bannister Stanford
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Each passage was initially typed in orthographic form with punctuation into a
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text file. These files were then used as input to the text-to-speech system and as a
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