# Syllable Lab
> Speech technology is shaped by timing, stress, pronunciation, breath and the differences between individual voices.

## Entries
- [A Fixed 60-Second Passage for Comparing Text-to-Speech Prosody: Design and Limitations](https://syllable-lab-bz9.pages.dev/fixed-passage-tts-prosody/): A fixed 60-second passage makes text-to-speech comparisons more repeatable by giving every voice the same linguistic material and prosodic challenges.
- [Word Error Rate Is Not the Whole Story: A Guide to Evaluating Transcripts of Accented Speech](https://syllable-lab-bz9.pages.dev/word-error-rate-accented-speech/): Word error rate measures the proportion of word-level substitutions, deletions and insertions needed to transform a reference transcript into a system.
- [Automatic Captioning of Overlapping Speakers: A Repeatable Evaluation Protocol](https://syllable-lab-bz9.pages.dev/overlapping-speaker-captioning-method/): Automatic captioning becomes more difficult when two or more people speak at the same time because speech recognition, speaker attribution and caption timing.
- [Stress, Pausing and Breath in Synthetic Narration: A Listener's Guide](https://syllable-lab-bz9.pages.dev/stress-pausing-breath-synthetic-narration/): Synthetic narration sounds convincing when stress, pausing and breath support the meaning of a sentence.
- [Choosing a Voice for Audio Description: An Accessibility Checklist](https://syllable-lab-bz9.pages.dev/choosing-audio-description-voice-accessibility/): An audio description voice should communicate visual information clearly while fitting the timing, emotional character and listening conditions of the program.
- [Pacing Serialized Audio Fiction: Notes for Narrators and Synthetic Voices](https://syllable-lab-bz9.pages.dev/serialized-audio-fiction-pacing-synthetic-voices/): Short serialized audio fiction needs a clear dramatic movement within each installment and a reason for listeners to continue into the next one.

## About
- [About Syllable Lab](https://syllable-lab-bz9.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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