@article{Jones_2012, title={Familiar talker advantages in formant-based and concatenative synthetic speech}, volume={40}, url={https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2522}, abstractNote={Access to synthetic speech technology has never been easier than it is today. Home computers come bundled with text-to-speech software, as do some eReaders and smart phones. The technology has come a long way since Stephen Hawking’s recognizable DECTaIk voice in the late 1980s. Four sets of stimuli were created for this research. The threshold stimuli consisted of 70 pre-recorded spondees ? bisyllabic words with equal stress on both syllables - produced by a native speaker of American English. Training, Testing, and Post-Test stimuli consisted of pie- recorded sets of Harvard Sentences produced by synthetic speech. The training phase consisted of 60 sentences produced by a synthetic speaker. Groups 1 and 2 trained with the concatenative voice Eric, and groups 3 and 4 trained with formant voice Wheatley. The participants listened to the sentence a single time and were asked to transcribe what they heard.}, number={3}, journal={Canadian Acoustics}, author={Jones, Jacqueline}, year={2012}, month={Sep.}, pages={26–27} }