# SSW 2023 Supplementary Material

## Introduction
This repository contains the supplementary material for the conference paper titled "The Impact of Pause-Internal Phonetic Particles on Recall in Synthesized Lectures". This study investigated the impact of pause-internal phonetic particles (PINTs) on the recall of synthesized university lectures for native and non-native listeners. 

### Audio Files
The audio files are located in the `audio` directory and are in a .wav format. The `audio` folder has two subdirectories: `tts_comparison` and `perceptual_experiment`. The `tts_comparison` directory contains the one lecture segment in both the original (NAT) condition and in the base synthesized speech version (SYNTH), as seen below:
* NAT_01.wav
* SYNTH_01.wav
 
The files used in the perceptual experiment are found in the `perceptual_experiment` directory. This experiment evaluated 4 passages in 3 conditions: an unmanipulated base condition (base), a silence condition where all non-silence PINTs were replaced with equal duration silence take from the audio (sil), and a condition where all PINTs material was removed (nopints). Included are two of the four passages, as seen below:
* engl310_07_synth_base.wav
* engl310_07_synth_nopints.wav
* engl310_07_synth_sil.wav
* engl310_13_synth_base.wav
* ...
