Introduction

This repository contains the supplementary material for the conference paper titled “Synthesis after a couple PINTs: Investigating the Role of Pause-Internal Phonetic Particles in Speech Synthesis and Perception”.

TTS Comparison

Below are five sentences in three different conditions, the natural and two text-to-speech conditions, ControlledPINT and AutoPINT.

Natural


ControlledPINT

AutoPINT

Perceptual Experiment

This experiment evaluated 10 sentences in 4 conditions: PINTsless, long silence, filler particle, and combinatory.

PINTsless

Long silence

Filler particle

Combinatory