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Some measures of intelligibility and comprehension
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capabilities to process unrestricted text must be traced, at least in part, to the exist-
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ence of an explicit model of the underlying linguistic structure that is common to
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both text and speech and to the rule systems relating the two domains.
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In summary, the results of our evaluation tests designed to measure phoneme
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intelligibility, word recognition and comprehension of synthetic speech produced
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by the MIT text-to-speech system have demonstrated good to excellent perfor-
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mance on a wide range of materials. No major problems were uncovered in the
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design of the system nor were any serious errors identified in any of the com-
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ponent modules of the system to date. The present results, although preliminary,
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support the general conclusion that very high-quality synthetic speech can be
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produced automatically from unrestricted English text and that such a system could
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be implemented in an applied setting in the very near future.
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