It was previously observed [1] that the order of presentation of paired stimuli influenced the number of different responses in same-different tasks in speech synthesis evaluation. This paper investigates this phenomenon within the context of cognitive psychology and demonstrates that, as the cognitive psychology literature suggests, there is an effect relating to the prototypicality of the stimulus.

Index Terms: speech synthesis, evaluation, perception, Blizzard Challenge

Janska, A.C., “Further Investigation of MDS as a Tool for Evaluation of Speech Quality of Synthesized Speech”, MSc Dissertation, The University of Edinburgh, 2009. Online: www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/3624

@inproceedings{janska12_interspeech,
  title     = {Asymmetries in the perception of synthesized speech},
  author    = {Anna C. Janska and Erich Schröger and Thomas Jacobsen and Robert A. J. Clark},
  year      = {2012},
  booktitle = {Interspeech 2012},
  pages     = {2206--2209},
  doi       = {10.21437/Interspeech.2012-588},
  issn      = {2958-1796},
}