The other was taken from a 151 million-word (4.3 million fullparagraph) sample of the English Gigaword corpus.
we use word duration estimates from the state-of-the-art open-source text-to-speech system MARY (Schröder et al., 2008, version 4.3.1), with the default voice package included in this version (cmu-slt-hsmm).