Published May 3, 2022 | Version 1
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Synthetic Göttingen Sentence Test material created with a text-to-speech system

  • 1. Institute of Hearing Technology and Audiology, Jade University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg, Germany
  • 2. Medizinische Physik, Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Description

The speech material of the German Göttingen Sentence Test [1] was synthesized using a commercial text-to-speech system (Acapela Cloud Service). More details will be found in [2].

Files:

goesa_synth_female.zip
contains all 200 sentences with a synthetic female voice and the corresponding speech adjusted noise, which was generated by superimposing the speech material 30 times according to [3].

goesa_synth_male.zip
contains all 200 sentences with a synthetic male voice and the corresponding speech adjusted noise, which was generated by superimposing the speech material 30 times according to [3].

 

Files

goesa_synth_female.zip

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References

  • [1] Kollmeier B, Wesselkamp M. Development and evaluation of a German sentence test for objective and subjective speech intelligibility assessment. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1997; 102(4):2412-2421. DOI: 10.1121/1.419624.
  • [2] Ibelings S, Brand T, Holube I. Speech recognition and listening effort of meaningful sentences using synthetic speech, submitted to Trends in Hearing.
  • [3] Wagener K, Josvassen J, Ardenkjaer R. Design, optimization and evaluation of a Danish sentence test in noise. International Journal of Audiology. 2003; Vol. 42(1): 10-17. DOI: 10.3109/14992020309056080