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This chapter describes the Japanese DRT and its evaluation procedure. The English DRT is briefly described, followed by the definition of the Japanese DRT. An analysis of the Japanese consonant taxonomy is described, followed by the definition of the word-pair list to be used in the test. Finally, the evaluation procedure is described, along with the scoring procedure.
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Kondo, K. (2012). The Japanese Diagnostic Rhyme Test. In: Subjective Quality Measurement of Speech. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27506-7_3
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