Presentation	2007-05-24 Auditory Performance of Senior Citizens and Weak Eyesight Persons Versus Speed of Synthetic Speech Minoru HAYASHI,
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Abstract(in English)	To create the human-friendly machine reading systems needed to support the again society, we conducted a subjective evaluation experiment on the auditory performance of the elderly. The subjects were twenty one people with normal aural ability. Most had normal eyesight for their age, but a few had weak eyesight. The subjects were challenged with synthetic speech at different speaking speeds. We measured the degree of comfort and the speech comprehension rate for meaningful and nonsense sentences. As one result, the subject-entered evaluation scores showed that subjects with normal eyesight preferred slightly slower speeds. Those with weak eyesight preferred slightly faster speeds.
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Keyword(in English)	Auditory Performance / Senior Citizens / Speaking Speeds / Synthetic Speech
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Conference Date	2007/5/17(1days)
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Title (in English)	Auditory Performance of Senior Citizens and Weak Eyesight Persons Versus Speed of Synthetic Speech
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Keyword(1)	Auditory Performance
Keyword(2)	Senior Citizens
Keyword(3)	Speaking Speeds
Keyword(4)	Synthetic Speech
1st Author's Name	Minoru HAYASHI
1st Author's Affiliation	NTT Cyber Space Laboratories()
Date	2007-05-24
Paper #	WIT2007-3
Volume (vol)	vol.107
Number (no)	61
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	6
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