TABLE X.
MRT open-response phonemes accounting for the highest percentage of error in final position.
| System | Phonemes (Percentage of error accounted for in each evaluation) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural | ŋ (26.67) |
m (13.33) |
p (13.13) |
n (13.13) |
ð (06.67) |
| Prose 2000 V3.0 | k (28.02) |
θ (11.64) |
s (07.76) |
p (06.47) |
t (05.60) |
| DECtalk Paul | n (17.20) |
k (13.70) |
ŋ (11.80) |
s (10.30) |
m (05.90) |
| DECtalk Betty | p (15.50) |
ŋ (12.90) |
s (12.40) |
n (10.40) |
t (08.70) |
| MITalk-79 | n (23.60) |
ŋ (20.00) |
vowela (10.20) |
m (08.90) |
f (06.20) |
| Amiga 500 | k (18.64) |
t (14.57) |
ŋ (08.53) |
ld (08.01) |
v (06.43) |
| Infovox | vowel (09.30) |
ŋ (06.80) |
m (05.70) |
n (05.60) |
v (05.20) |
| Smoothtalker | d (13.43) |
g (10.45) |
t (09.57) |
p (09.13) |
n (08.25) |
| Votrax | p (14.05) |
k (13.04) |
n (10.03) |
ŋ (09.03) |
m (08.11) |
| Echo | k (15.81) |
n (12.99) |
p (12.09) |
d (10.44) |
g (08.89) |
a
The MRT contains six words (way, may, say, gay, day, and pay) with the vowel /eˈ/ in final position. Errors for the vowels in these words are also included in the calculation of the error rates for the vowel /eˈ/ in Table IX.