@inproceedings{pub6601,
    abstract = {In this paper, we test the effect of using speech synthe- sis when interacting with a spoken dialog system (SDS). We use a user simulation to connect our speech synthe- sis to a real, state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) component deployed in a working commercial SDS via a standard telephone line. In a series of experiments, we compare human-machine dialogs and their recognition scores with simulated dialogs using synthesis. Our results show that a good text-to-speech synthesis configuration ri- vals human speech both in recognition scores as well as variability. This makes the speech interface in user simu- lation quite attractive.},
    year = {2012},
    title = {Natural vs. Synthesized Speech in Spoken Dialog Systems Research - Comparing the Performance of Recognition Results},
    booktitle = {ITG-Fachbericht Sprachkommunikation 2012. ITG-Fachtagung (ITG-2012), September 26-28, Braunschweig},
    editor = {Tim Flingscheidt and Walter Kellermann},
    pages = {127-130},
    isbn = {978-3-8007-3455-9},
    publisher = {VDE Verlag, Berlin},
    author = {Tatjana Scheffler and Roland Roller and Florian Kretzschmar and Sebastian Möller and Norbert Reithinger},
    organization = {ITG}
}