The CMU ARCTIC speech databases

The CMU Arctic databases designed for the purpose of speech synthesis research. These single speaker speech databases have been carefully recorded under studio conditions and consist of approximately 1200 phonetically balanced English utterances. In addition to wavefiles, the databases provide compl...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: John Kominek, Alan W Black
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2004
Subjects:
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.384.9414
http://isca-speech.org/archive_open/archive_papers/ssw5/ssw5_223.pdf
Description
Summary:The CMU Arctic databases designed for the purpose of speech synthesis research. These single speaker speech databases have been carefully recorded under studio conditions and consist of approximately 1200 phonetically balanced English utterances. In addition to wavefiles, the databases provide complete support for the Festival Speech Synthesis System, including pre-built voices that may be used as is. The entire package is distributed as free software, without restriction on commercial or non-commercial use. 1.