Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge.

This paper describes the process of building unit selection voices for the Festival Multisyn engine using four ARCTIC datasets, as part of the Blizzard evaluation challenge. The build process is almost entirely automatic, with very little need for human intervention. We discuss the difference in the...

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Main Authors: Clark, Robert A J, Richmond, Korin, King, Simon
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: International Speech Communication Association 2005
Subjects:
speech synthesis
festival
ARCTIC datasets
Multisyn
Arctic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1842/919
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spelling ftunivedinburgh:oai:era.ed.ac.uk:1842/919 2023-07-30T04:00:20+02:00 Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge. Clark, Robert A J Richmond, Korin King, Simon 2005 298291 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1842/919 en eng International Speech Communication Association In Proc. Interspeech 2005, September 2005 http://hdl.handle.net/1842/919 speech synthesis festival ARCTIC datasets Multisyn Conference Paper 2005 ftunivedinburgh 2023-07-09T20:34:01Z This paper describes the process of building unit selection voices for the Festival Multisyn engine using four ARCTIC datasets, as part of the Blizzard evaluation challenge. The build process is almost entirely automatic, with very little need for human intervention. We discuss the difference in the evaluation results for each voice and evaluate the suitability of the ARCTIC datasets for building this type of voice. Conference Object Arctic Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA - University of Edinburgh) Arctic
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topic speech synthesis
festival
ARCTIC datasets
Multisyn
spellingShingle speech synthesis
festival
ARCTIC datasets
Multisyn
Clark, Robert A J
Richmond, Korin
King, Simon
Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge.
topic_facet speech synthesis
festival
ARCTIC datasets
Multisyn
description This paper describes the process of building unit selection voices for the Festival Multisyn engine using four ARCTIC datasets, as part of the Blizzard evaluation challenge. The build process is almost entirely automatic, with very little need for human intervention. We discuss the difference in the evaluation results for each voice and evaluate the suitability of the ARCTIC datasets for building this type of voice.
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author Clark, Robert A J
Richmond, Korin
King, Simon
author_facet Clark, Robert A J
Richmond, Korin
King, Simon
author_sort Clark, Robert A J
title Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge.
title_short Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge.
title_full Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge.
title_fullStr Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge.
title_full_unstemmed Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge.
title_sort multisyn voices from arctic data for the blizzard challenge.
publisher International Speech Communication Association
publishDate 2005
url http://hdl.handle.net/1842/919
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op_relation In Proc. Interspeech 2005, September 2005
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