Re: [AUDITORY] Spanish Speech Material (Male)

Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Spanish Speech Material (Male)

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Dear Massimo,

Thank you for your reply!

We are indeed considering the use of synthesized speech as a backup solution. We would like to prioritize the use of natural speech, because we will compare the results to another dataset collected with natural speech.

I have unfortunately no experience with synthesized speech, but can recommend the work from Inga Holube's group as reference: https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165221130656

All the best,

Jonathan Regev

M.Sc., Ph.D.

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Eriksholm Research Centre
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From: Massimo Grassi <massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2026 09:22
To: Jonathan Regev (JTEG) <jteg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Spanish Speech Material (Male)

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Dear Jonathan,

why you do not consider the text-to-speech AI? They seem very good to my ears. Actually, I wanted to use these sounds in an experiment in which I want to present speech in various languages with the same voice-timbre. In other words, (and this is also a question I address to the list members, possibly experts in this topic) are these new AI voices bad?

All the best to everybody and greetings from the alps, very close to the olympics.

On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 at 06:18, Jonathan Regev (JTEG) <0000048aec16583c-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear list members,

We are currently preparing a study investigating speech-intelligibility scores in listeners with normal hearing.

The study will be run in Spain and will use the Castilian Spanish HINT material as target speech (Huarte, 2008).

We are looking for speech recordings in Castilian Spanish by male speakers, to be used as competing-talker maskers.

We are for example looking for recordings of male speakers reading news stories, books, etc...

Any resource you may be aware of would be highly appreciated!

Reference: Huarte, A. (2008). “The Castilian Spanish Hearing in Noise Test,” Int J Audiol, 47, 369–370. doi:10.1080/14992020801908269

Thanks and best,

Jonathan Regev

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Scientist

Eriksholm Research Centre
Rørtangvej 20
3070 Snekkersten
Denmark
Email: jteg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Website: www.eriksholm.com