This demo page contains all samples used in our listening test, synthesized using our spontaneous TTS.
They vary in terms of the number and type of repetitions as well as the presence or absence of filled pauses.
The table below shows an example of the different variants. To create the disfluent versions, the highlighted words were repeated with or without FPs (blue in version A, red and blue in version B, green and blue in version C). More detail about the types of repeated words and their frequencies can be found below the samples. |
Fluent: Good morning everyone and welcome to the first lecture of Understanding the Early Universe. In this lecture we'll discuss how scientists can measure the echoes of the distant past. Let's start by learning the definitions of some important terms. The number that helps us estimate how fast the universe is expanding is called the Hubble constant. What this constant tells us is that there's a direct relationship between a galaxy's distance and how quickly it's moving away from us. |
A: In this lecture we'll [um] we'll discuss how scientists can measure the echoes of the distant past. |
B: In [um] in this lecture we'll discuss how scientists can measure the echoes of the distant past. |
C: In this lecture we'll [um] we'll discuss how scientists can measure the [um] the echoes of the distant past. |
Bear (instructions) |
Fluent |
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Fire (instructions) |
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Foraging (instructions) |
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Navigate (instructions) |
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Shelter (instructions) |
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Snow (instructions) |
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Water (instructions) |
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Betz (lecture) |
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Boltzmann (lecture) |
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Eddington (lecture) |
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Hubble (lecture) |
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Kondo (lecture) |
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Magnus (lecture) |
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