Publication Abstract

Jones, D., Wolf. F., Gibson, E., Williams, E., Fedorenko, F., Reynolds, D. A., Zissman, M., Measuring the Readability of Automatic Speech-to-Text Transcripts, In Proc. Eurospeech in Geneva, Switzerland, ISCA, 1-4 September 2003.

Abstract

This paper reports initial results from a novel psycholinguistic study that measures the readability of several types of speech transcripts. We define a four-part figure of merit to measure readability: accuracy of answers to comprehension questions, reaction-time for passage reading, reaction-time for question answering and a subjective rating of passage difficulty. We present results from an experiment with 28 test subjects reading transcripts in four experimental conditions.